This is big news.
Judge takes sledgehammer to National Firearms Act
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Firearms Act (NFA) no longer applies to suppressors and other items whose taxes were reduced to $0 in July 2025.
United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, granted a motion for summary judgement from attorneys representing the Silencer Shop Foundation Wednesday.
A summary judgement!!!!
It was NOT a Second Amendment based decision:
Thank the GOP legislators and President Trump for enabling this win. The gun organizations had a relatively easy layup in court.
The Four Boxes Diner has the best legal take. Something you should know is that the decision only applies to the plaintiffs, their members, and their customers. It is not nation-wide. It only applies to people in the federal district court in the Northern District of Texas:
The plaintiffs include:
- Gun Owners of America
- The National Rifle Association
- B&T USA, LLC
- Palmetto State Armory, LLC
- SilencerCo Weapons Research, LLC
- The Virginia Citizens Defense League
- The Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition
- Fifteen states
- Silencer Shop Foundation
That NRA membership is still good for something!
I don’t know for certain how the “fifteen states” plays out in this context. We will need some clarification from a lawyer on that. My guess is that the Feds can’t prosecute any of those state that makes, uses, or sells silencers, SBR, and SBS. But, I am not a lawyer.
CCRKBA WIN: FED. JUDGE SAYS SUPPRESSOR, SBR NFA REGISTRATION UNCONSTITUTIONAL – CCRKBA
Giffords exposes themselves as liars again. Kostas Moros assists in making it obvious:
They cannot imagine it was about anything other than about money. They need to think of a new rationalization. This one is so boring. Can’t they come up with something just as nonsensical and not so boring? I’d like to suggest:
- The NFA was needed to assist in alcohol prohibition, and we need it now for recreational drug prohibition!
- Protecting the hearing of gun owners takes away another reason to ban guns!
- Short barrels bad, long barrels good!
This is very good, but I suspect that anti-gun states like Washington will make it a priority to regulate them at the state level in the next legislative term if they can.