{"id":118161,"date":"2026-08-06T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118161"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:57:22","slug":"118161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118161","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

TX: Judge Takes Sledgehammer To National Firearms Act<\/a><\/p>\n

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Firearms Act (NFA) no longer applies to suppressors and other items whose taxes were reduced to $0 in July 2025.<\/p>\n

United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, granted a motion for summary judgement from attorneys representing the Silencer Shop Foundation Wednesday. In the 66-page\u00a0opinion<\/a>, Hendrix said that because taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and other items had been reduced to $0 by legislation\u00a0signed<\/a> by President Donald Trump in July 2025, the registration and paperwork imposed by the NFA exceeded Congress\u2019 authority under the taxation power.<\/p>\n

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BREAKING:<\/p>\n

A district court in Texas just granted our summary judgment motion finding that the NFA exceeds congressional authority for the untaxed items, without reaching the Second Amendment question.<\/p>\n

More to follow soon as we read the ruling.\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/IyNbRWBc9x<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SAF (@2AFDN)\u00a0August 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIn 2025, Congress eliminated the NFA\u2019s transfer and making taxes for four categories of firearms: short-barreled shotguns, short-barreled rifles, silencers, and a final, defined group of miscellaneous firearms,\u201d Hendrix wrote. \u201cBecause today\u2019s NFA does not generate any revenue from untaxed firearms, its regulatory provisions cannot be upheld under the taxing power. And there is no sign in the NFA\u2019s text, structure, or statutory history that Congress invoked any other power in crafting the NFA provisions at issue. Thus, the regulatory provisions must be enjoined as unconstitutional because they exceed Congress\u2019s enumerated powers.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the Senate parliamentarian\u00a0struck<\/a>\u00a0language that removed those items from NFA\u2019s purview, Congress reduced the taxes to $0.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0in multiple legal filings since May 2025 that the \u201cbeneficial use\u201d of suppressors overwhelms their misuse by criminals. The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Federal Court finds NFA UNCONSTITUTIONAL in NRA case!<\/p>\n

A federal court has struck down the NFA\u2019s registration requirements for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns in our Jensen v. ATF lawsuit.<\/p>\n

“The fight to fully repeal this archaic\u2026\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/Fq1GKBg2fh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NRA (@NRA)\u00a0August 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAs promised, the NRA is leading the charge to dismantle\u2014and ultimately end\u2014the National Firearms Act,\u201d NRA-ILA Executive Director John Commerford said in a statement. \u201cOur successful effort to eliminate the $200 NFA tax created the opening for our world-class attorneys to secure this historic federal court ruling that the NFA is unconstitutional. The fight to fully repeal this archaic gun-control measure is not over, but today\u2019s decision is a major step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGOA worked with Congress to reduce the NFA tax for suppressors and short barrels to zero dollars, and then our legal team finished the job in court,\u201d Gun Owners of America Director of Federal Affairs Aidan Johnston told the DCNF. \u201cOf course we couldn\u2019t have done it without the relentless activism and support from gun owners across the country. We will never give up the fight until every federal infringement is repealed or struck down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DOJ\u2019s\u00a0supplemental brief<\/a>\u00a0in Peterson v. United States, another case involving charges of possessing an unregistered suppressor, admitted that suppressors and other firearms components and accessories were protected under the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TX: Judge Takes Sledgehammer To National Firearms Act A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Firearms Act (NFA) no longer applies to suppressors and other items whose taxes were reduced to $0 in July 2025. United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, granted a motion … 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-118161","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\/118161","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=118161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118162,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118161\/revisions\/118162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}