🚨 2A Update:
NAGR applauds @repbencline for calling on AG Pam Bondi and the DOJ to drop their legal defense of the anti-gun National Firearms Act. pic.twitter.com/BM7EAubJmn
— National Association for Gun Rights (@gunrights) February 11, 2026
Rep. Ben Cline: The Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans, last year President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law which included the Hearing Protection Act — part of it — which was sponsored by myself and Congressman Clyde. It reduced the national firearms tax, $200 tax on suppressors and short-barreled firearms, to zero and while the tax has been eliminated, the NFA’s registration and paperwork requirements remain in effect.
And your DOJ has said that would, even though the tax has been reduced to zero, that the registration requirement is still somehow necessary even though with regard to Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, when that tax penalty was reduced to zero, you decided that the mandate was no longer necessary.
How are you justifying the existence of this registry?
AG Pam Bondi: Congressman, that’s pending litigation right now.
Rep. Cline: It is and I would hope that you would reconsider that.
— Attorney General Pam Bondi testimony before the House Judiciary Committee
DOJ loves federal gun control. It’ll do everything to protect it, might give a few whacks at state-level controls by writing mean letters, but that’s about it.
It appears presently the only positive movement out of Bondi’ DOJ is a bowel movement!
“That’s pending litigation”? Is she confusing “I can’t talk about pending criminal cases” with “I can’t talk about pending litigation”? They aren’t the same. I think Bondi has done a lot of good things, but she’s also committed unforced errors on several occasions.
The SOT still exists, even if the transfer taxes on some items have been zeroed out.. SCOTUS ruled in Sonzinsky v. United States (300 U.S. Reports, 1937) that the SOT justifies the NFA.
DoJ is obeying SCOTUS, not the ignorati at NAGR.