"At issue is a lawsuit filed by the Silencer Shop Foundation (SSF), GOA, and several other plaintiffs in July against the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), challenging the National Firearms Act (NFA), as it was amended in the Big Beautiful Bill Act, which eliminated the tax stamp for certain firearms and accessories like suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and the NFA's any other weapons category, but still kept the paperwork and registration requirements."
"The complaint argued that with the tax now at zero, the NFA was no longer producing revenue for the federal government and that eliminated the legal justification for the law. Now, SSF argued in a statement on its website, [t]he law's only effect is to create burdensome regulations, slow approval times, and a federal registry of law-abiding citizens who wish to exercise their rights, making the NFA nothing more than a restriction and registration scheme and opening the law up to new constitutional challenges."
Gun Owners of America publicly criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ for legal arguments defending the National Firearms Act. Plaintiffs including the Silencer Shop Foundation and GOA sued the DOJ and ATF after the Big Beautiful Bill eliminated tax stamps for certain NFA-regulated items while preserving paperwork and registration requirements. Plaintiffs contend the tax at zero removes revenue justification and turns the NFA into burdensome regulation and a federal registry. The DOJ filed a 48-page memorandum seeking summary judgment, defending the NFA by arguing it remains a valid tax. GOA attacked the DOJ and called the administration a betrayal of Second Amendment principles.
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