Via The Truth About Guns by Mark Chesnut
While President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” managed to do away with the $200 tax on suppressors and short-barreled rifles (SBRs), the failure of Congress to completely remove those items from under the auspices of the National Firearms Act (NFA) has some gun-rights groups outraged.
One such organization is the Gun Owners of America (GOA), which immediately announced after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the legislation that it would be filing a “On Big Beautiful Lawsuit” in an attempt to dismantle the remaining provisions of the NFA.
While the original House measure did just that, the U.S. Senate parliamentarian rejected the language, resulting in only the $200 tax cut in the final legislation that has been sent to President Trump for his signature.
“GOA’s team in Washington had been working behind the scenes with Congress since the November 2024 election to repeal the NFA fully, but congressional Republicans allowed an unelected bureaucrat to block the GOA-backed provision,” a GOA press release stated. “Instead, the House and Senate settled for reducing the NFA’s $200 excise tax to $0 on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and any other weapons or AOWs—teeing up GOA’s legal challenge.”
Joining GOA in the legal challenge are the Gun Owners Foundation, Palmetto State Armory, the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, Silencer Shop and B & T USA. The lawsuit will ask the courts to strike down the NFA’s new $0 tax, which GOA calls “absurd,” and registration scheme for certain suppressors and firearms with short barrels.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to dismantle one of the most abusive federal gun control laws on the books,” said Erich Pratt, GOA senior vice president. “ With the tax struck down by Congress, the rest of the NFA is standing on air. We’re ready to take this fight to the courts and finally end the federal registry once and for all.”
Aidan Johnston, GOA director of federal affairs, said the lawsuit is necessary because Congress didn’t fulfill its responsibilities as it should have.
“GOA and our grassroots activists fought tooth and nail to fully gut the NFA and came closer than anyone else, in the 91 years this infringement has been on the books, to getting it repealed,” Johnston said. “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.”
Travis White, president and CEO of the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, a party to the lawsuit, called the NFA “indefensible.”
“For almost a century, the National Firearms Act has imposed unconstitutional burdens on the American People under the pretextual guise of tax collection,” White said. “Congress’ recent decision to reduce the corresponding tax for most articles covered under that Act to $0 leaves no further doubt as to the indefensible character of that Act.”
In addition to the GOA lawsuit, the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) has also already announced plans to file a lawsuit challenging the NFA as soon as President Trump signs the measure.
“While we will continue to fight for the total legislative elimination of the NFA, our organizations are proud to stand together in a new strategic lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the NFA in Federal Court,” FPC said in a news release following the measure’s final passage in the House.
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Merge all 2A groups on this Big time
As soon as it’s feasible I’ll buy several suppressors. My 79 year old ears are already on VA disability and don’t need more trauma.