We Still Want to See the Entire NFA Abolished

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It’s one of the biggest victories against federal gun control in American history; so we’re pretty happy with it.

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We still think the ATF is unconstitutional. We still want to see it abolished, and we still want to see the entire NFA abolished.

Mark Jones
National director of Gun Owners of America
October 8, 2026
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I believe he is correct on both accounts.

I remember donating money to a small group challenging the fingerprinting and extensive background check shortly after the NICS checks went into effect back in the late 1990s. “Why can’t we just do the NICS check and drop a suppressor in the shopping back along with your new Ruger 10/22 with a threaded barrel?” The courts didn’t see it that way and they lost in fairly short order.

That was nearly 30 years ago.

Next spring we will almost for certain have the “assault weapon” bans eliminated. It should be declared a national holiday or something. If it were to come out on “Juneteenth” we could piggyback two different freedom events in the same holiday.

It’s a great time to be alive and experience this.

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21 thoughts on “We Still Want to See the Entire NFA Abolished”

  1. Repealing the NFA is indeed the right approach. Executive actions or court decisions or defunding the ATF are partial wins that have the potential of blowback. I am not as certain about the demise of the AWB as you. Roberts is still a snake and ACB is still a minion. I hope that Thomas and Alito have counted the votes accurately. Also, reversing a positive decision would be one of the first items on the agenda of a packed court. Put not your trust in black robes.

    • “Repealing the NFA”

      I’d much rather see it ruled unconstitutional, and then have everyone wronged by it file class action for billion$.

      There needs to be *deterrent* to violations of the constitution. At this late stage there can be no source for deterrent from within any branch government.

      TINVOWOOT

      • Put not you trust in black robes. Even if we win this time, it is easily reversible. Yeah the NFA could be repassed (probably worse the second time around) but the system makes it intentionally hard to pass a law.

      • And have those “billions $” paid out of our own pockets via taxes.
        Complete waste of time and money.

        Push for civil rights charges, criminal and civil, on everyone who enforced those laws and regulations, from the clowns who sponsored and voted for it to the desk jockeys who ran the registry under the argument that “Shall not be infringed” is such clear and straightforward language that any “misinterpretation” would have to be “willful and knowing”.
        Set the ball in motion with a task force of independent counsels made up of some real firebrands and cry havoc.

  2. I look forward to the day when the end of the unconstitutional “assault weapons” ban applies in California as well as nation wide. California is always dragged kicking and screaming to support the Constitution of the United States, so I expect some delay after the death of the ban becomes the law of the land.

  4. Like California, Washington will be a bitter clinger to unconstitutional requirements as well. Can I just stick a buttstock on my .300 BLK pistol? Probably not here in WA.

  5. Seems most people don’t get it. The NFA still exists and is still a law “on the books”. All this decision does basically is state “we won’t enforce this law”. It does NOT mean the law is gone. And someday…probably sooner than most wish…the left WILL regain administrative control and they WILL reimpose ALL of the legal requirements of the NFA. Then they can go after ANYONE who possesses ANY of these items without the correct paperwork. THIS IS A TRAP! It may not be intended as one by the Trump administration but that IS what this decision actually is.

    • All it takes is another fiscal bill where they change the tax to something more than “zero”.

    • Whether or not you were included in that group, your lament that “This Is A Trap!”™ was heard nearly 4 years ago on the announcement by ATF of the amnesty for Braced Pistols being Short Barreled Rifles in January 2023.

      Nothing happened then, and it’s likely nothing will now.
      However – just in case – all one has to do is join one of the plaintiffs in the case; ( GOA membership being a quick and easy one, and also providing documented membership) and your concern is, if not totally, very significantly lessened.

      • As long as the NFA exists as Federal law anyone who is not in 100% compliance is at risk of fines and prison sentences. THAT is reality.

      • A bunny escaping a snare doesn’t make the snare not a snare.

        “Nothing happened then” … That simply can’t be asserted until the registry records generated by the amnisty are destroyed more thoroughly than the arm braces of those who didn’t register.

      • IANAL, but I don’t believe entrapment by estoppel applies. The BATFE has not given an erroneous interpretation of the NFA statutes; they’ve simply said they won’t be enforcing them for now.

        Essentially, prosecutorial discretion.

        Exercising prosecutorial discretion does not change the interpretation or meaning of the law or provide authorization to engage in unlawful conduct.

  6. So many of you small minded “alpha” males whose whole manhood is tied up in guns. Such pathetic excuses for humans you are.

    • Mines not “tied up” in any gun.
      Trigger guards are way too small for me to fit it through there.
      But we understand, your crowd has always been prone to projecting.

    • Congratulations!!!! You are the first Markley’s Law example in over a year and a half.

      You should be so proud.

    • Can’t logically argue for even the tiniest part of the positions you hold? THROW INSULTS! Totally works every single time.

      We’re all very impressed, Thomas. Especially the women you included in that insult, as there are several around here.

    • The late L. Neil Smith had something to say about your limited intellect in one of his books; The Probability Broach:

      “I’ve heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are.”

    • Can your “manhood” (and I use the term loosely) launch 140-grain projectiles toward violent criminals at 1100 feet per second?

      Mine can’t, and I unashamedly admit that. (Among other things, it would make mine totally unsuitable for its biological purpose. The ladies would almost certainly complain.)

      So, as an evolved tool-user, I have guns to do the projectile-launching for me, just like I have a car to travel places faster than I can walk, and hammers to drive nails, and screwdrivers to drive screws, and my manhood for your mom.

      (Was that last bit over the top? 😀 )

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