08/06/2026
United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix ruled Wednesday that the National Fi****ms Act no longer applies to suppressors and other items whose taxes were reduced to $0 in July 2025.
Hendrix, the Trump appointee, wrote:
“In 2025, Congress eliminated the NFA’s transfer and making taxes for four categories of fi****ms: short-barreled shotguns, short-barreled rifles, silencers, and a final, defined group of miscellaneous fi****ms,” Hendrix wrote. “Because today’s NFA does not generate any revenue from untaxed fi****ms, its regulatory provisions cannot be upheld under the taxing power. And there is no sign in the NFA’s 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’s enumerated powers.”
After the Senate parliamentarian struck language that removed those items from NFA’s purview, Congress reduced the taxes to $0.
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