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OMG! Gun Rights Absolutists Are Working to Tear Down the NFA! And They\u2019re Making Progress! OMG!<\/a><\/p>\n

By Dan Zimmerman<\/p>\n

With the political winds blowing in its favor, the GOA began drafting language some time last year to remove suppressors and short-barreled long guns from the NFA. After sharing the proposal with a few industry leaders, they worked with sympathetic Republican lawmakers to wedge it into the budget reconciliation bill \u2013 Andrew Clyde on the House side, and Roger Marshall, Mike Crapo and Steve Daines in the Senate.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had the language and we had key members of Congress to introduce it,\u201d [Luis] Valdes, the GOA spokesman, said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been looking at challenging the NFA since GOA first came into existence 50 years ago. The NFA is clearly unconstitutional.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The move came at a hospitable time, with Trump urging Congress to use the budget reconciliation process to pass his \u201cbig, beautiful\u201d bill, spurring a flurry of hasty lawmaking.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, the NFA proposal touched off weeks of high-stakes wrangling. The version passed by the House only removed the tax on suppressors \u2013 an easy sell to moderate Republicans, but which the GOA viewed as far too watered-down. The Senate version included a full repeal of silencers and short-barreled long guns from the NFA, only for the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, to find that the proposal violated the \u201cByrd rule\u201d that bars extraneous measures from consideration during budget reconciliation. The GOA responded with a national alert calling to\u00a0\u201cfire the anti-gun parliamentarian now!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The final version of the sweeping budget bill left intact the NFA\u2019s registration requirements, which include some extra paperwork and fingerprint submission, but dropped the tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns to $0. The changes left machine gun restrictions untouched.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a remarkably swift reversal of key provisions of one of America\u2019s bedrock gun laws. But instead of declaring victory, when Trump signed the budget bill into law on 4 July, the GOA immediately filed what it called a \u201cbig, beautiful lawsuit\u201d seeking to overturn the NFA restrictions on suppressors and short-barreled long guns entirely.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Within a month, 15 Republican-led states had joined as plaintiffs. On 1 August, the Firearms Policy Coalition, another gun rights group, filed a similar lawsuit, joined by the NRA. What had seemed like an outlandish position only a few months earlier was suddenly becoming the conservative political consensus.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Roque Planas in\u00a0Inside the gun absolutists\u2019 bold plot to repeal one of America\u2019s strongest firearms laws<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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