The federal lawsuit seeking to finally eradicate National Firearms Act (NFA) registration restrictions received robust backing last week when 15 states joined the charge.
Dubbed the One Big Beautiful Lawsuit, the legal effort was spawned by Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), and several other Second Amendment advocates.
The outdated NFA is ready for the dustbin of history
The hated $200 NFA tax stamp required for short-barreled rifles (SBRs) and suppressors is no more after the U.S. House and Senate passed the White House’s proposed federal budget. But officials left the onerous registration mandate intact.
What does this mean for law-abiding Americans? And why did 15 states throw their legal backing behind the plaintiffs?
To transfer a suppressor or SBR, an individual still must undergo fingerprinting, submit to a background check, and register their firearm or accessory with the ATF.
Plaintiffs argue that the erasure of the NFA tax stamp requirement makes the federal law irrelevant
In what promises to be an impactful lawsuit, GOA and other plaintiffs argue that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the NFA as a tax statute. With the erasure of the tax stamp requirement by Congress, that reasoning is now fatally flawed.
“GOA has also argued that the NFA’s registration mandates violate the Second Amendment and are an unconstitutional overreach of federal power,” the organization declared in a press release last month. “With the tax mechanism gutted and reduced to an unworkable state by Congress, GOA’s forthcoming legal challenge will aim to strike down what remains of this obsolete and abusive law.”
The NFA is a relic of the Great Depression’s Prohibition Era and the explosion of gangland violence that followed. Authorities intended to target organized crime, but now the battered regime applies primarily to law-abiding citizens.
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