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We have some very good news. We just won an important victory against the NFA registration scheme. In Jensen v. ATF, CCRKBA stood as a named plaintiff in a case funded by our sister organization, the Second Amendment Foundation. A federal judge ruled that key registration requirements for now-untaxed NFA firearms are unconstitutional. But here’s the part I really want you to know about. The Jensen injunction reaches CCRKBA members across the country, current and future. You’re a CCRKBA member. That means you’re among the members covered by this injunction. That’s a pretty good example of why membership matters. CCRKBA stood in this fight. SAF provided the resources to make it possible. Together, we won. For a limited time, we’re giving you the opportunity to become a member of both organizations. Make a gift of $25 or more, and we’ll add membership in the Second Amendment Foundation to your existing CCRKBA membership. Why add SAF? Because SAF membership can matter when we win in court, too. SAF recently won its challenge to the federal government’s Post Office carry ban, and that nationwide protection covers current and future SAF members. And going forward, SAF membership puts you in a position to potentially benefit when SAF wins future injunctions or other court-ordered relief that extends specifically to its members. So right now, your CCRKBA membership puts you among the members covered by Jensen, and your SAF membership puts you among the members covered by the Post Office carry victory. For a limited time, $25 makes you a member of BOTH. ADD YOUR SAF MEMBERSHIP FOR $25 But I hope you’ll consider doing more than $25 if you’re able. You’re already seeing what membership can mean when we win. Now I’m asking you to help us win the next one. SAF has two more NFA challenges moving through the courts right now: Brown v. ATF and Roberts v. ATF. And here’s my challenge to you. You no longer have to pay that $200 NFA tax. If you’re able, put some or all of that $200 tax savings behind the legal fight instead. Your first $25 adds your SAF membership. If you can make it $50, $100, $225, $500, or more, you’re giving SAF more resources to keep these NFA cases moving. If $225 works for you, that’s fantastic. If it doesn’t, give whatever you’re comfortable with. Every gift helps. We broke through in Jensen. Now we have an opportunity to build on it, and I don’t want to waste that opportunity. Membership puts you in a position to benefit from the victories. Your additional support helps us win them. For more than 90 years, the federal government collected that $200 NFA tax. Now you don’t have to pay it. If you’re able, I’d love to see you put those savings behind the fight instead. You’re already standing with us at CCRKBA. For a limited time, stand with SAF, too, and help us keep pushing. ADD SAF + FUEL THE NEXT NFA FIGHT $25 | $50 | $100 | $225 | $500 | OTHER Thank you for your support, Andrew Gottlieb Executive Director Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms P.S. You’re already among the CCRKBA members covered by the Jensen injunction. For a limited time, your gift of $25 or more adds SAF membership, too, putting you among the current and future SAF members covered by the Post Office carry victory and positioning you for potential member-specific relief in future SAF wins. If you’re able, consider putting some or all of your $200 NFA tax savings behind the next fight. If $225 isn’t right for you, give whatever you’re comfortable with. Every gift helps us keep pushing. Do you like the newsletter? Share it! Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms 12500 NE 10th Pl Bellevue, WA 98005 |
This will give the membership a huge boost. But until there is some specific guidance from the BATF (or someone in the FedGov with authority to do so, and / or from each state’s AG), a lot of dealers won’t sell until they know how they can clear existing inventory on their books. Still a lot of technical questions for most states, particularly here in Washington state, because there is different language used for the short-barreled rifles and shotguns, vs suppressors.
Watching the WA state gov’t guys squirm will be fun, but I fear they’ll find a way to reinterpret it in the least reasonable, most onerous way possible. I hope they get slapped down hard and quickly for it if they do.
If future members are covered, how would they know that today i would not be a future member? That terminology would seem to open the door to covering anybody since anybody could become a future member…
I think what it means is that you can join today and it applies to you, not that you must have been a member at the time the lawsuit was filed, and prove past membership, or must show you intend to be a member, only that you are currently a member at the time of attempted purchase. A very powerful bit of the decision.