Quote of the Day
Congress should never have shifted responsibility to the courts to strike down the archaic National Firearms Act of 1934. Now GOA will do what Republicans would not: continue the fight to repeal the NFA.
Aidan Johnston
Federal Affairs Director
Gun Owners of America
July 8, 2025
Gun Rights Groups Sue to Block National Firearms Act Enforcement
I understand the sentiment. I don’t even disagree. But a court victory is more permanent than a legislative victory. It is more costly in both time and money. But it does have advantages.
The fact that so many in government have such low reading comprehension skills, coupled with their inherit dishonestly. Tales us the entire reasoning and righteousness of the 2A.
Sad that it should cost millions over something our founders showed was self-evident.
Being in government and not abiding by the law wrote in the 2A is fraud. And that voids all contracts.
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“But a court victory is more permanent than a legislative victory.”
Depends on the grounds for the court victory.
If SCOTUS rules that SBRs and Suppressors cannot fall under the NFA because there is no tax attached, they can be added right back on by passing a law re-instituting the tax the next chance they get.
SCOTUS won’t uphold the letter and spirit of the Second Amendment because they’re so terrified of being painted in a poor light by the media. If they come right out and say “shall not be infringed” means exactly that, they might not get invited to all the best dinner parties.
So they chip away at the edges to maintain the pretense of upholding the Constitution, while ignoring the elephant in the room.
Words have meaning and everything the founders wrote was intentional.
The first amendment says “congress shall make no law” but SCOTUS has interpreted that to mean no one, anywhere, can violate freedom of speech and the press and sometimes religion if the religious belief doesn’t infringe on the leftists latest favored victim group.
The second amendment says “shall not be infringed”…doesn’t say “by congress” or “by the federal government” or “except in emergencies”…the fact that it doesn’t stipulate those things means that it implicitly say “by anyone, anywhere at any time”
The fact that some cities, states, localities and even the federal government started violating it almost immediately doesn’t change the meaning or intent of the words.
In summary, until SCOTUS admits that the words in the Second Amendment actually mean what they say, any advances we make in that realm are temporary and based on which party happens to be in power at any given time.
Anyone who believes the gun grabbing commies on BOTH sides of the aisle are going to allow us to own NFA items is delusional. Nobody can say yet exactly what method they will use to prevent the end of the NFA but you can bet the farm that the NFA is NOT going to be undone. They want us DISARMED…completely. They sure as hell aren’t going to make full auto available legally ever again. The real question is what do they have up their sleeves…