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Biden announces new regulations on ghost guns; Pakistan chooses Shehbaz Sharif for prime minister.

Tonight's Sentences was written by Jariel Arvin.

The Biden administration cracks down on "ghost guns"

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• On Monday, President Joe Biden announced new regulations to crack down on ghost guns — privately made firearms without serial numbers that police say are increasingly involved in crimes. [USA Today / Michael Collins]
• The rule classifies the kits used to build ghost guns as firearms under the Gun Control Act. [CNN / Kevin Liptak]
• That means online sellers will have to have federal licenses, add serial numbers (to both guns and gun parts sold separately), and do background checks on buyers — like they would for any other gun. Ghost guns already in circulation must receive serial numbers. Federally licensed gun dealers must also keep records as long as they are in business. [ABC News / Armando Garcia and Libby Cathey]
• The announcement of the new rule coincided with the nomination of Steve Dettelbach, a US attorney in Ohio, to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the agency responsible for enforcing US gun laws. [Associated Press / Michael Balsamo]
• The moves come amid growing concern over gun violence. Police recovered 20,000 ghost guns at crime scenes in 2021 — a tenfold increase since 2016. [Guardian / Martin Pengelly]

Pakistan taps Shehbaz Sharif for prime minister

• Pakistan chose Shehbaz Sharif, younger brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, to replace the outgoing prime minister, Imran Khan, ending a week of political turmoil. [BBC]  
• Sharif, 70, is a longtime opposition leader, who united parliament against Khan. He won on a populist platform and promises to get the economy back on track. [Deutsche Welle]
• Opposition lawmakers held a vote of no-confidence in Khan over economic concerns as well as Khan’s efforts to sideline his rivals and critics. Khan attempted to sidestep the vote by dissolving parliament and ordering snap elections. However, the Pakistan Supreme Court ruled that was unconstitutional. [CNN / Sophia Saifi and Rhea Mogul]
• But Khan isn’t leaving office quietly: Sunday, he rallied hundreds of thousands of his supporters in the streets, calling for early elections and alleging that the new government was working with the US, claims the State Department has denied. [AP / Kathy Gannon]

On Monday, Philadelphia became the first major US city to reimpose its indoor mask mandate. [New York Times / Campbell Robertson]

• Britney Spears is expecting her third child; she says her long conservatorship previously prevented her from having one. [BuzzFeed News / Stephanie K. Baer]
• In runoff elections later this month, French President Emmanuel Macron will face far-right firebrand Marine Le Pen. [CNN / Joshua Berlinger and Joseph Ataman]
• The White House expects record inflation when the latest numbers, including surging energy prices, are released Tuesday. [CNBC / Thomas Franck]

“Ghost guns look like a gun, they shoot like a gun, and they kill like a gun, but up until now, they haven’t been regulated like a gun.”

[John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, in USA Today]

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