The Northern District of Texas strikes again, granting final judgement in a case with GOA and Silencer Shop Foundation to challenge the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act. The Judgement rules that because the government no longer collects a tax on short barrel rifles, short barrel shotguns, and suppressors, then their entire regulatory scheme is unconstitutional as it exceeds their authority as it no longer uses the enumerated taxing power
Posted on 08/06/2026 8:34:58 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
The Northern District of Texas strikes again, granting final judgement in a case with GOA and Silencer Shop Foundation to challenge the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act. The Judgement rules that because the government no longer collects a tax on short barrel rifles, short barrel shotguns, and suppressors, then their entire regulatory scheme is unconstitutional as it exceeds their authority as it no longer uses the enumerated taxing power
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This judgement needs to be explained, the subject is being censored in the MSM obviously by the Fed Gov.
1 posted on 08/06/2026 8:34:58 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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2 posted on 08/06/2026 8:35:45 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
To: Texas Fossil
It is time to dismantle the ATF.
3 posted on 08/06/2026 8:37:57 AM PDT by ChuckHam
To: Texas Fossil
MSM will ignore it completely, basically it removes the ability to force the registration of small barrel rifles and suppressors.
Big defeat for gun control.
4 posted on 08/06/2026 8:38:43 AM PDT by Skwor
To: Texas Fossil
This judgement needs to be explained
I’ll try, although I’m not a lawyer, nor a Constitutional scholar like Obama.
Back in the 30s when the NFA was passed, Congress didn’t have the power to ban things, only tax them. (What a quaint idea, Congress only being allowed to do what the Constitution says it can do). Anyway, Congress did have the power to tax things, even to the point of effectively banning them by imposing a large tax.
The court’s reasoning, as I follow it, is since the taxes have been eliminated, the whole premise of the NFA, as originally passed is no longer valid. The NFA was not a ban on certain firearms, it was a tax on them. Take away the tax and the NFA disappears.
5 posted on 08/06/2026 8:46:56 AM PDT by hanamizu
To: Texas Fossil
Does this mean we can buy sawed off shotguns with just 4473 and NICS?
6 posted on 08/06/2026 8:52:45 AM PDT by MachIV
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