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Second Amendment Foundation Challenges Constitutionality of National Firearms Act<\/a><\/p>\n

The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a\u00a0new lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act.<\/p>\n

The groups Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, FPC Action Foundation, Texas Rifle Association, Hot Shots Custom and three people: John Jensen, Jeremy Neusch, and David Lynn Smith filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.<\/p>\n

Since 1934, the NFA required anyone who wished to purchase a silencer, short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun or \u201cAny Other Weapon\u201d to pay a $200 tax and register the firearm with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.<\/p>\n

The One Big Beautiful Bill removed the tax on these arms but kept the registration requirement.<\/p>\n

The newly filed suit seeks to completely remove the affected arms from the NFA, eliminating the remaining registration requirements for gun silencers, short-barreled rifles, or barreled shotguns.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the tax now set to $0, the remaining registration requirements for these arms under the NFA have no constitutional basis,\u201d said SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut. \u201cCompletely removing them from the NFA is now a must, and this suit aims to eradicate the barriers to the exercise of the Second Amendment. SAF is already a plaintiff in its own lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of these elements of the NFA, and now our sister organization the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is joining the fight as a plaintiff with our financial backing in this companion case.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The SAF posted on social media:<\/p>\n

“MAJOR 2A LAWSUIT FILED: SAF and partners have filed another groundbreaking complaint against the ATF and DOJ in the Northern District of Texas. After the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and other NFA items, the NFA\u2019s invasive registration scheme is left without constitutional basis\u2014it\u2019s no longer a tax measure and violates the Second Amendment. This suit argues the NFA exceeds Congress\u2019s powers for untaxed firearms and infringes on the right to keep and bear common arms like suppressors and SBRs, which are neither dangerous nor unusual. Law-abiding Americans shouldn\u2019t face felony charges for exercising their rights without government tracking.<\/p>\n

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