Texas Judge Rules that Law Regulating Firearm Suppressors and some Guns Can’t Be Enforced
The ruling is the first in three related lawsuits challenging post-tax registration requirements, plaintiffs said.
- On Wednesday, a judge for the District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that National Firearms Act registration requirements for short-barreled rifles and suppressors are unconstitutional in the case Jensen v. ATF.
- Congress recently eliminated the $200 tax on these firearms through the One Big Beautiful Bill, though the mandate to register them with the ATF remained in place.
- The Second Amendment Foundation, alongside co-plaintiffs including the Citizens Committee and the Texas Rifle Association, supported the legal challenge, arguing the government lacks constitutional authority to maintain registration without an underlying tax.
- This ruling is the first decision rendered among three related lawsuits challenging registration requirements. The Second Amendment Foundation is a named plaintiff in Brown v. ATF and supports Roberts v. ATF.
- SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut stated this decision sets a precedent allowing Americans to exercise Second Amendment rights without fear of being placed on a government registry.
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The judge ruled that several registration, application and approval requirements set out in the NFA are unconstitutional for silencers and short weapons
A federal judge rejects NFA regulations, saying their tax rationale no longer applies
When Congress eliminated taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, it also eliminated the constitutional justification for regulating them.
Judge Just Blew a Hole in 90 Years of Gun Control
A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that key parts of the 1934 National Firearms Act are unconstitutional, opening the door to eliminating registration requirements for silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, a Trump appointee in the Northern District of Texas, said Congress lost its legal basis for the registration and paperwork rules when it zeroed out the $200 transfer tax on those item…
Federal judge guts provision of National Firearms Act in victory for Kansas gun owners
A federal judge has effectively gutted a portion of the National Firearms Act relating to firearm suppressors, among other things. United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas ruled Wednesday, August 5, 2026, that the National Firearms Act no longer applies to suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and other NFA items whose tax was reduced to $0 by Congress in the One Big Beautiful Bil…
Analysis: Why a Federal Judge Just Struck Down Most of the NFA
The first judge to rule on a tax authority challenge to the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) has sided with the gun-rights challengers. Those challengers overcame what a number of experts have described as long odds by winning a permanent injunction against much of the NFA on Wednesday. US District Judge James Wesley Hendrix broadly ruled that Congress’s decision to slash the NFA tax on… Source
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