Big Beautiful Lawsuit

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This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to dismantle one of the most abusive federal gun control laws on the books. With the tax struck down by Congress, the rest of the NFA is standing on air.

Erich Pratt
Senior vice president
Gun Owners of America
July 4, 2025
Gun groups plan lawsuits to end National Firearms Act in wake of ‘big, beautiful bill’

It was appropriate that the bill was signed on July 4th.

Once we get rid of the registration, fingerprints, and extended background check aspects for the suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns we will have created a very powerful legal weapon. The precedents established will make the elimination of restrictions on machine guns obvious and achievable.

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8 thoughts on “Big Beautiful Lawsuit”

  1. Given the precedent, well-developed case-law on this general topic, and simplicity of the argument, this approach should be a fast slam-dunk set of cases that move rapidly (relatively speaking) through the courts to SCOTUS. The only question is what will the anti-gun forces do when they realize the scale of the trap that’s laid before, and how could they respond (like losing locally and not appealing, forcing LOTS of suits, etc) to slow it down or side-track it with leftie judges, and how the RINO right freaks out and responds as well.

    Related question: If the NFA ’34 tax stamp provision gets struck down for suppressors, SBRs, etc., what becomes the legal status and requirements of existing suppressors, owned personally or via trusts? DO they have to do anything, can they move or change ownership without paperwork, etc? I’m betting that anti-gun states will moves to regulate or ban them fairly quickly.

    • The coming state and local restrictions are the downside to the legislative solution we implemented to this problem. Ultimately, we have to implement the judicial solution to get more permanent and location specific relief.

  2. They’re all missing the main point. If reconciliation can remove the tax.
    Then therefor the need of registration. What stops the commies from just putting the tax back on when they have a majority?
    And then requiring you to register them all over again? Or worse yet. Redoing the 34’NFA on all firearms? Since suppressor are now considered arms along with everything else?
    Add on the newly establish legal fact that if congress can tax and register. So can the states.
    Gun.org is setting itself and us up for a legal doom-loop. (And millions of dollars in legal fees.)
    The second AMENDMENT,,,, amends the congresses power to tax also. (And by extension the states.) Also congresses power to control interstate commerce in bearable arms.
    Win that. And the rest of this crap goes away.
    “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
    The word “infringement” was chosen for this very reason. To block even the slimiest of political maneuvers.
    And legally stops ALL claims to power over our God given right.
    This seems legally elementary to me. What am I missing?
    And the greater point. Why is gun.org missing it?

    • Short answer: if they put the tax back on, there will be an enormous universe of untaxed and unregistered suppressors, SBRs, SBSs out in the general population. They couldn’t be taxed again until transferred again. If I’m reading the room right, after the registration is struck down, the record of the old registrations may be destroyed under the FOPA.

      So they’d be starting over from scratch, and it’d work about as well as the registration of ‘assault weapons’ did in Illinois.

      • They’ll delete the official registry, and then unofficially circulate a backup copy. Just like they did in Canada. Then, they will use parallel construction to obscure the fact that a backup copy is circulating around. Also, they will purchase sales data from brokers, and use that info to keep the unofficial database updated. Until data ownership, acquisition, retention, and privacy (or lack thereof) is addressed, we are just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. As usual.

        • Well, the new Legal Counsel for ATF is a well know adamant Pro-2A/RKBA legal scholar and my bet is that if the registry for SB(X) & AOWs go away, he and his staff will make sure that not just the physical NFRTR gets deleted, but any computer database gets purged too. And that includes going after any ‘off the books’ copy of the registry.

      • Yes, and would you be carrying them to the field anymore?
        As any government badge-clown can ask to see your stamp?
        You have 90 days to register your arms, get a stamp, or lose them?
        Think the communist wouldn’t do that?
        And use Tom Homan’s new army to do it? Think Homan’s army wouldn’t do it?
        “Shall not be infringed” was wrote the way it was for a reason.
        Why is it everyone keeps forgetting that reason?
        Dropping the tax and regulation doesn’t get rid of the power to tax and regulate. And that’s what needs to die, in a loud, grotesque, military manner if necessary.
        That power belongs to us. Not government.

  3. The NFA may be “standing on air” but it’s amazing just how much political hot air can hold up…

    I’m not holding my breath on the outcome of this lawsuit.

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