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The National Firearms Act might finally be staring down its executioner.
Gun Owners of America (GOA) just announced plans for what it’s calling the “One Big Beautiful Lawsuit” to tear down the NFA’s remaining registration mandates. This comes as President Trump is expected to sign the “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law, zeroing out the $200 tax on suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs.
GOA has long argued the NFA’s registration mandates are unconstitutional and violate the Second Amendment.
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) July 3, 2025
Because Congress only zeroed out the tax, we’re preparing a legal challenge to strike down the rest of this abusive federal power grab. 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/AUVYrDyBLQ pic.twitter.com/yCKGuQl8X5
GOA said it fought behind the scenes to fully repeal the NFA but Congress punted. Republicans let an unelected bureaucrat block the total repeal, so the tax was slashed to $0 instead.
Here’s why that matters: The 1937 Supreme Court decision Sonzinsky v. United States upheld the NFA solely as a tax statute, not as a gun control law. With the tax gone, GOA argues the entire constitutional justification crumbles.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to dismantle one of the most abusive federal gun control laws on the books,” said Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior VP. “With the tax struck down by Congress, the rest of the NFA is standing on air. We’re ready to end the federal registry once and for all.”
Aidan Johnston, GOA’s Director of Federal Affairs, didn’t hold back either: “Congress should never have shifted responsibility to the courts to strike down the archaic National Firearms Act of 1934. Now GOA will do what Republicans would not.”
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— SAF (@2AFDN) July 3, 2025
When President Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill — which will eliminate the excise tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and AOWs — he will have delivered the biggest blow to the National Firearms Act since its passage nearly a century… pic.twitter.com/9LfC1QJP3d
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is also gearing up its own lawsuit, alongside the American Suppressor Association, NRA, and Firearms Policy Coalition.
SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut said, “With the One Big, Beautiful Bill zeroing out the tax… the registration scheme serves no other purpose than to create an unlawful barrier to keep people from exercising their Second Amendment rights.”
Palmetto State Armory, Silencer Shop, and B&T USA all issued statements backing GOA’s legal push. Travis White of the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition summed up the industry mood: “Congress reducing the tax to $0 leaves no further doubt as to the indefensible character of that Act.”
The lawsuits will argue that with no tax, the NFA’s registration mandates are unconstitutional and should be struck down entirely, removing what GOA calls a nearly century-old “obsolete and abusive law.”
Stay tuned!
If GOA and SAF win this fight, it could spell the end for one of America’s oldest federal gun control laws — Kill the NFA!!! — and reshape the landscape for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and beyond.
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What does this no tax mean for acquiring a suppressor?
Will they become an over the counter item like a firearm? Or will we need to go thru all the paperwork as before the Big Beautiful Bill?
Sorry, Daddy but I disagree– and feel some regulatory oversight is required for a lot of things, not just for weapons, so I support speed limits and restrictions on driving due to known problems, all sorts of things. I believe that is part of being a citizen, to know and accept some regulatory actions by the government.
I feel some regulations are overdone, and in this case an “end run” would be to deny certain items to persons based on history and behavior BUT also to make them quicker and easier for those who are not disqualified.
The ONLY excuse for registration – taxed or not – is so that firearms and their accessories can be confiscated at a later date from the sheeple who complied, because sure as aitch-e-double hockeysticks the criminals don’t comply with registration schemes, or obtain their weapons legally! Gun control isn’t about crime, or the uns themselves. It’s ALL about controlling the “peasants”!
According to Rep. Clyde, Pres. Trump promised to work on removing suppressors and SBR’s from the NFA another way if he would vote “yes” on the Big Bill, which he did. Personally I think that was a mistake because Trump has always been anti suppressor and anti 2A in general and will very likely never push for either to be removed nor will he support ending the NFA. Anything can happen but if I’ve learned anything over the years it’s to never underestimate the Republican party’s propensity to screw over it’s own members.
Speaking of “screwing over it’s on members”, look what the “demoncratic” party has done to it’s own people since the Jimmy Carter days. The dems have slowly and steadily pushed their socialist/communist agenda down everyone’s throat since Slick Willy was in office.
You are absolutely WRONG. The “demoncrats” are the ones that raised hell and pushed for major changes in his original draft of the BNB to remove some of these archaic NFA rules. DT has supported 2nd amendment rights even when he was a “demoncrat” living in NYC, before having a moment of clarity and realizing he was in a party of fruitcakes, and switched to the Republican party. Which by the way is the ONLY party that truly represents ALL Americans and not the purple haired, rainbow flag waving, looting and pillaging communist party. Just look at that communist dirt-bag the demoncrats picked as their savior in NYC. 🙄
Donald Trump has made clear MANY times his stance on the 2nd amendment and FULL support for it, especially conceal carry. He has even pushed for nation-wide reciprocity. He even has a CCL himself. All you’re doing is regurgitating “demoncratic” talking points.
I’m not talking about Democrats, everyone already knows all that mess they do. You’re living in a fantasy world if you think Trump is pro-2A, he’s pro-vote and says whatever he has to like every other politician. He knows he has to appease the 2A voters but so far we’ve got very little. A democrat parliamentarian pulled out the HPA and SHORT act but the Republicans had the ability to override it and they chose not to. Despite the GOA and everyone else demanding they override the removal and put it back in, they chose not to. You’re talking out of your rear end. Trump can’t have a CCL because he’s now a felon and while I think those charges were bogus it doesn’t change anything. You’re arguing out of emotion, not logic or fact. I’m pro Trump but he has a loooong way to go to prove he’s changed his views on the 2A.
And you’re suffering for TDS. Try getting your information from some other place beside MSDNC, CNN, or in your case, the View.
Thanks for your efforts to free us.
More likely the tax fee is removed to make the addition of AR-15’s to the NFA registry an easier political sell. I mean ATF has been working to get their eforms working more efficiently and streamline the process. a little more time and it will be ready for the influx of AR registrations.
Trump has made it crystal clear that he does not support the 2nd amendment. It’s all for show as he destroys the country like every president and government official
TDS has fried your simple mind. Trump is definitely making this country better.
Any so called LAW that hinders or makes harder for me or anyone to purchase Any firearm or ammunition is UNLAWFUL, the Second Amendment is VERY CLEAR on this the Right of the People to OWN and Bare Arms shall NOT BE INFRINGED. the GOVT. started with full auto weapons then they started eating away at every other possible accessory or gun that they don’t understand or like, the Communist part of our government ie. the DemonRat party wants We the PEOPLE UN Armed so they can have total control over We the PEOPLE an Armed Society is a Peaceful one and unarmed society are just subjects to the Crown/ DemonRat party. which want to RULE over us with an IRON FIST.
Amen! Well said …
Maybe you legal-eagles can answer this, will you still need to carry a copy of your stamp paperwork when you use your suppressor?
Are you required to carry proof of insurance when you drive your car on a roadway?
That is the question that will be asked– but how it is required is the real question. An NFA items card might be an easy way for “proof of compliance” without the full sized paperwork. Think in terms of something like the driver’s license, current tag on your car, and proof of insurance for your car. The government runs on paperwork, we just need threshold proof.
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And see, that’s the argument. If there’s no longer a need for a tax stamp, why even classify suppressors as an NFA item to begin with? You don’t have to carry a “proof of compliance” if you own a firearm, why need it for an accessory? 🤔
If I want to drive a car on the road I need paperwork for both myself and the car.
I feel suppressors should remain NFA– but that forms must be handled within thirty working days of submission. That is to keep the idiot crowd from doing things that reverse opinion on the usefulness of this item because they improperly make and improperly use it at home– the reason the “ghost gun” backlash was so strong.
If the idiot makes a ghost suppressor and commits a crime then the status means that person gets charged in Federal Court and can wind up in Federal Prison without an early release option.
As for the amount of the NFA stamp? I suspect that is not going to be such a big deal because prices will come down as sales go up, but if it was a five dollar stamp then Club Fed remains the reward for “the guys who no longer qualify to own a firearm” who uses one.
I would prefer it be a trackable item that can be shipped from seller to buyer– use of the fingerprints/photographs allowing interstate sales if the item is allowed in the destination state and that it be approval time limited– for all NFA items so it is not X time plus Y time and added dealer fees for the transfer.
The very existence of the NFA item and the identification and approval of it should allow for NFA to be sold that way.
Keeping it NFA should allow for that kind of sale– remove it from NFA and the nit-pickers will win when one idiot does something really bad, and backlash will land on us by the ton.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I respect yours, but I TOTALLY disagree. Suppressors should be handled like any other firearm you purchase, serialized and handled like any other firearm purchase, on a form 4473 – NOT NFA forms!
Classifying it like a machine gun or any ‘other than’ non-destructive weaponry is ridiculous. BTW – have $800 invested in those damn tiny little pieces of paper with the sticky back (the stamps), and over a $1000 for lawyer fee’s, just so I can legally own 4 NFA ‘accessories’.
Happy 4th! 🖖
You’re not a citizen, You’re a good little subject.
According to William Kirk in the video above, nothing about the paperwork process changes EXCEPT there will no longer be a $200 tax.
according to several reports GOA, FPC and several other “pro-gun” groups made a backroom deal to endorse the removal of the tax but would not endorse the SHORT/HPA ACTS! Reports are saying this ‘deal’ was made 5 to 6 days before the Clyde amendment.
SO, if these reports are true law-abiding gun owners got used by vote pandering fake in name only republicans and these ‘no compromise’ not so pro-gun groups.
What “reports”, can you provide links to these? This “deal” you talk about sounds so unbelievable I’d like to read the reports. Anything is possible but I’d like to read it myself.
After passage in the Senate, Dudley Brown said “NAGR was the only group NOT to sign a letter dropping the tax to $0. We don’t see that as a win. ” So something happened behind the scenes.