{"id":117492,"date":"2026-06-25T15:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117492"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:11:23","slug":"117492","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117492","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

FPC Moves Forward in Lawsuit to Strike Down National Firearms Act<\/a><\/p>\n

A\u00a0reply brief<\/a>\u00a0in support of the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment was filed in\u00a0Roberts v. ATF<\/i><\/a>, an FPC-backed challenge to the National Firearms Act of 1934.<\/p>\n

Plaintiffs in the case include T.J. Roberts, Zachary Cockrell, Meridian Ordnance, Buckeye Firearms Association, Center for Human Liberty, Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership, and American Suppressor Association Foundation. The plaintiffs are represented by David Thompson, Peter Patterson, and Nicholas Varone of Cooper & Kirk.<\/p>\n

The brief was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, in Covington.<\/p>\n

The brief was filed on June 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

The brief responds to the Trump DOJ’s defense of the NFA and explains why the plaintiffs should win on\u00a0summary judgment<\/a>. The NFA’s registration scheme can no longer be justified under Congress’s taxing power because the taxes it was designed to help collect no longer exist; even if it could, the scheme still violates the Second Amendment by infringing upon the right to keep and bear suppressors and short-barreled rifles.<\/p>\n

“The National Firearms Act is a relic of a darker era and an authoritarian scheme without a constitutional foundation. The federal government cannot use a dead tax scheme as an excuse to maintain a registry and regulatory regime for constitutionally protected arms, period. Our Constitution does not allow the government to put fundamental rights behind a paywall designed to make the instruments of liberty expensive and less accessible to the very people who have a right to them. As we approach our nation’s 250th birthday, the Trump Administration should be ashamed for defending an immoral tax-and-control scheme that only King George III would be proud of. FPC and our Grassroots Army will continue Fighting Forward to strike down this unconstitutional gun control regime.” \u2014 FPC President Brandon Combs<\/p>\n

About Firearms Policy Coalition:<\/strong>\u00a0Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) is a nonprofit membership organization that exists to create a world of maximal individual liberty and eliminate unconstitutional gun control laws. FPC works\u2014and wins\u2014for the People through high-impact strategic litigation, groundbreaking research, legislative and regulatory advocacy, grassroots activism, education, and public engagement. FPC’s legal division, FPC Law, is the nation’s leading initiative dedicated to restoring the right to keep and bear arms across the United States. To learn more about how FPC is working\u2014and winning\u2014for the People, sign up for FPC news alerts at\u00a0firearmspolicy.org<\/a>\u00a0and follow FPC on\u00a0X<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FPC Moves Forward in Lawsuit to Strike Down National Firearms Act A\u00a0reply brief\u00a0in support of the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment was filed in\u00a0Roberts v. ATF, an FPC-backed challenge to the National Firearms Act of 1934. Plaintiffs in the case include T.J. Roberts, Zachary Cockrell, Meridian Ordnance, Buckeye Firearms Association, Center for Human Liberty, Jews … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=117492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117500,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117492\/revisions\/117500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}