There's no more legal excuse for registering things, so stop it.
Long story short…the NFA is now very constitutionally vulnerable. Yesterday, four gun rights orgs filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas — part of the gun-friendly Fifth Circuit — making exactly that case.
From the American Suppressor Association . . .
Today, The American Suppressor Association (ASA), National Rifle Association (NRA), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). The case, Jensen v. ATF, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
This complaint asserts that, with the removal of the excise tax on constitutionally protected arms like suppressors and short-barreled rifles, the NFA registration regime can no longer be upheld as a legal exercise of Congress’s taxing power.
The lawsuit also contends that the NFA registry on protected arms constitutes a violation of the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court has ruled that all firearms regulations must be consistent with our nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. According to the plaintiffs, there is no such tradition that supports the NFA’s registration regime.
The plaintiffs in the case include the Texas State Rifle Association, FPC Action Foundation, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Hot Shots Custom LLC, and three individuals.
I've heard that a bunch of dealers have people starting the paperwork now, but not to actually take delivery until after the 1st of January so there'll be no tax. Be really nice of it became 'until there's no paperwork more than a 4473 form', but nothing moves through the courts that fast.
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Recall that the Miller case, which found the NFA Constitutional, was heard at the Supreme Court on the Governments' petition, after Miller had died, and no one presented his position in the case.
John in Indy
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