Second Amendment Roundup: $0 Tax Left NFA with No Constitutional Basis
Second Amendment Roundup: $0 Tax Left NFA with No Constitutional Basis Northern District of Texas decides that registration requirements for non-taxed NFA firearms are no longer grounded in Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes. Stephen Halbrook | 8.9.2026 9:47 PM In a decision issued on August 5, U.S. Bureau of ATF that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which repealed the taxes for the making and transferring of certain firearms under the National Firearms Act (NFA), left the law without any basis for its registration requirements in the authority of Congress to "lay and collect Taxes." U.S.
- ▪Second Amendment Roundup: $0 Tax Left NFA with No Constitutional Basis Northern District of Texas decides that registration requirements for non-taxed NFA firearms are no longer grounded in Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes.
- ▪Stephen Halbrook | 8.9.2026 9:47 PM In a decision issued on August 5, U.S.
- ▪Bureau of ATF that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which repealed the taxes for the making and transferring of certain firearms under the National Firearms Act (NFA), left the law without any basis for its registration requirements in the a
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Second Amendment Roundup: $0 Tax Left NFA with No Constitutional Basis Northern District of Texas decides that registration requirements for non-taxed NFA firearms are no longer grounded in Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes. Stephen Halbrook | 8.9.2026 9:47 PM In a decision issued on August 5, U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix (N.D. Tex.) ruled in Silencer Shop Foundation v. Bureau of ATF that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which repealed the taxes for the making and transferring of certain firearms under the National Firearms Act (NFA), left the law without any basis for its registration requirements in the authority of Congress to "lay and collect Taxes." U.S. Const. art. I, § 8. cl. 1.
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