The order from Justice Samuel Alito gives the high court until next Tuesday to decide how to handle the case.

A federal trial judge in Texas threw out the regulation, and the Biden administration is seeking to put that ruling on hold while the case is on appeal. Alito previously had paused the lower court order until Friday.

Authored by As The Epoch Times' Matthew Vadum detailed earlier, Second Amendment advocates are urging the Supreme Court to let stand a federal judge's ruling blocking the Biden administration's rule regulating so-called ghost guns.

"Ghost gun" is a pejorative term used by gun control advocates to describe a homemade firearm that lacks a serial number and therefore cannot be tracked by law enforcement. Gun control groups have been trying for years to ban or regulate homemade guns but have failed to convince Congress to act.