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A federal court in Texas has ruled that the Biden-era Frame and Receiver Rule is unconstitutional for two separate reasons: it violates the Second Amendment, and it is too vague to satisfy the Fifth Amendment’s due process protections.
The court declared the rule unconstitutional as applied to all SAF members, and issued a permanent injunction protecting Defense Distributed and current and future Second Amendment Foundation members as it relates to the specific gun kits involved in the case.
In plain English: SAF members are now expressly protected from enforcement of this rule specifically involving these specific products under the court’s order.
The government may still appeal the decision or ask the court to put the injunction on hold while an appeal moves forward. We are also seeking additional guidance from the government about exactly how the injunction will work in practice.
For now, this is another significant legal victory for SAF and its members and another example of why SAF membership matters.
Read the full court opinion here: https://saf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Defense-Distributed-opinion-8.19.26.pdf
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Posted on X August 18, 2026
From the same post:
Notice the rate of legal victories we are having? These are indicative of Nearing Structure Collapse.
I don’t think I will ever get tired of winning. Prove me wrong. Give your favorite gun owner rights group money to broaden the front in this war.
I like that the judge went into two reasons to find it unconstitutional.
While we were a bit let down that the NFA case was found unconstitutional on only the taxing power basis, the judge was good enough in the opinion to say, “Taxing power violation is enough; I didn’t have to go into 2A reasons”, so if the appeals court turned it around (still could; the option for an appeal is not closed, just the SOP stay expired), he can go straight into “Guess I have to, then: 2A limits the taxing powers, too” without having a new trial, just solicit briefs from the parties.