{"id":109677,"date":"2025-04-29T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=109677"},"modified":"2025-04-29T07:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:14:00","slug":"the-national-firearms-act-is-an-unconstitutional-tax","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=109677","title":{"rendered":"The National Firearms Act is an Unconstitutional Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.uwyo.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1516&amp;context=wlr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wyoming Law Review<\/a><br \/>\nManuscript 1516<br \/>\nCharles K. Eldred<\/p>\n<p>The National Firearms Act (NFA) regulates certain firearms (most<br \/>\nimportantly, short-barreled rifles and suppressors) under the taxing power.<br \/>\nThe Supreme Court upheld it as such in the 1930s. But those precedents are<br \/>\nsubject to attack under Heller and Bruen, since the NFA taxes the exercise of<br \/>\nconstitutional rights the earlier precedents did not recognize\u2014and does so<br \/>\nwithout any historical precedent. Moreover, consideration of rarely<br \/>\nconsidered limitations on the taxing power that the Supreme Court<br \/>\nreaffirmed in Sebelius leads to the conclusion that several provisions of the<br \/>\nNFA violate the taxing power, independent of any Second Amendment<br \/>\nconcerns. In sum, the NFA violates the Constitution, in total or in parts.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-National-Firearms-Act.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">The National Firearms Act<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyoming Law Review Manuscript 1516 Charles K. Eldred The National Firearms Act (NFA) regulates certain firearms (most importantly, short-barreled rifles and suppressors) under the taxing power. The Supreme Court upheld it as such in the 1930s. But those precedents are subject to attack under Heller and Bruen, since the NFA taxes the exercise of constitutional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=109677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The National Firearms Act is an Unconstitutional Tax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-109677","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109679,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109677\/revisions\/109679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}