And while we’re at it, we don’t need every single federal agency to be armed to the teeth. If the Dept of Commerce needs to serve a federal search warrant, then they can enlist the U.S. Marshals Service for help. It’s funny how Dems want to abolish ICE and prisons, but they’re happy to have every other federal agency armed to the teeth.

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Here is the whole thing in plain terms. Congress does not have general authority to do whatever it likes. It has a list of specific powers written into Article I of the Constitution, and one of those is the power to lay and collect taxes. In 1934 Congress used that taxing power to write the NFA: pay a $200 tax to make or transfer certain firearms, and register the item with what is now the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The registration paperwork was defended as the machinery for collecting the tax, and in Sonzinsky v. United States, 300 U.S. 506 (1937), the Supreme Court upheld the law on that footing. Not because a federal firearms registry is otherwise within Congress’s power. Because it was a tax.
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Then Congress zeroed the tax out. The One Big Beautiful Bill reduced the making and transfer tax to $0 for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and any other weapons, while leaving the registration requirement standing. Gun Owners of America announced in July 2025 that it would sue the moment that change took effect, alongside Gun Owners Foundation, Palmetto State Armory, the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, Silencer Shop, and B&T USA, on exactly the theory the court has now adopted: take away the tax and the constitutional footing goes with it. I covered that same argument when the Firearms Policy Coalition put it in front of a federal court, in With the Tax Stamp Dead, FPC Tells Federal Court the NFA’s Gun Registry Has to Die With It. What has changed is that the argument is no longer just a filing. A judge has now agreed with it in writing, and FPC Action Foundation is one of the plaintiffs in this case.

The court agreed in blunt language. ‘Because today’s NFA does not generate any revenue from untaxed firearms, its regulatory provisions cannot be upheld under the taxing power,’ the opinion states. The government could not fall back on some other authority either. The court found ‘no sign in the NFA’s text, structure, or statutory history that Congress invoked any other power in crafting the NFA provisions at issue,’ and held that a statute Congress wrote as a tax cannot be rescued after the fact by a power Congress never claimed. The challenged provisions, the court concluded, ‘must be enjoined as unconstitutional because they exceed Congress’s enumerated powers.’ The fix, the court said, has to come from Congress, not from the bench.
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