For over 90 years, the NFA has required that anyone interested in buying or building one of these weapons first submit an application to the ATF along with their fingerprints, a passport-style photo, and a $200 tax stamp before undergoing an enhanced background check. As the ATF notes, the $200 tax was “considered quite severe” in 1934 “to carry out Congress’ purpose to discourage or eliminate transactions in these firearms,” though it was never raised or adjusted to account for inflation. In today’s dollars, the figure would be well over $4,700.
But after January 1, 2026, those taxes will no longer be required for silencers, short-barreled firearms, or AOWs, making them significantly easier to obtain — jeopardizing public safety and resulting in an estimated $1.7 billion loss in tax revenue over the next decade.
The move is the latest attempt by the gun industry to chip away at the NFA. While NFA applicants previously had to be approved by the ATF and the chief law enforcement officers (CLEOs) in their areas, in 2016 — after lobbying from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the gun industry’s trade association — the ATF ruled that applicants only had to provide copies of their forms to CLEOs. The NSSF also lobbied for the ATF’s revamped “eForms” application system, which has led to dramatically faster approval times. …
— Greg Lickenbrock in Congress Cuts Taxes on Silencers and Short-Barreled Firearms
I look forward to hearing all the propaganda about hand grenade ownership and machine gun ownership.
And the “gun community” won’t defend either of them. Because they don’t believe a father’s love and discipline are necessary in the home.
And what about the underage ownership of glock switches???
“But after January 1, 2026, those taxes will no longer be required for silencers, short-barreled firearms, or AOWs, making them significantly easier to obtain — jeopardizing public safety and resulting in an estimated $1.7 billion loss in tax revenue over the next decade.”
100% lie.
First, it begins ON 1 Jan 2026, not after. And the lie gets more of a lie from there.
Democrats: “For over 90 years this has kept us all safe. Respect the history.”
Also Democrats: “We need to update the archaic and anachronistic 2nd Amendment written over 200 years ago.”
As a bonus:
Democrats: “The working poor are being nickel and dimed by an unfair and unjust system where the wealthy aren’t paying their fair share.”
Also Democrats: “We need to put a financial block and burden on gun ownership.”
They’re consistently inconsistent.
Democrats: “We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.”
Also Democrats: “We need to open the borders to illegal workers so we can have cheap labor.”
Democrats have always loved their slaves.
But at least they’re consistent. Keeping people impoverished and powerless preserves a class that they can appeal to. “We’ll fix it, we’ll set you free, those other people want to put you back in CHAINS” (paraphrased from Joseph R. Biden).
So as long as they keep people burdened, they can “fight for them” (while actually accomplishing nothing for them, see any multi-decade Democrat-run city for examples).
If they helped them to become successful, happy people, they’d turn them into Republican voters.
Democrat playbook: promises of free stuff / envy politics (take from those who have more) and fake civil rights fights. They have little else to offer except sticking it to their political enemies. (Some lefties get off on that.) Then there’s the child grooming.
In 1853 the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery became part of the constitution – 100% of congress republicans vote in favor of it, 77% of congress democrats voted against it – it would take another 15 years after that for all slaves to be informed they were free people as the Democrat slave owners and Democrat politicians did everything they could to keep that from happening. Contrary to popular belief, all slaves back then were not blacks. Approximately 15% of the slaves in the southern states were poor whites forced into slavery or had sold their selves into ‘indentured servitude’ slavery, and around another 15% were (collectively) hispanic or Asian. There were some black slave owners as well that owned and sold slaves of all different races, and used ‘indentured servitude’ enslaved whites and other races for labor and other economic gain especially white women they used as prostitutes in brothels or ‘domestic home staff’ they ‘rented’ out to affluent families. But now all slaves were free, this did not set will with the democrats especially democrats in the southern states.
Over time, democrats have tried for a resurgence of ‘slavery’ in one form or another, some slight and some more overt in their forms of submission and slavery. But overall, there has always been a part of the democrat party and democrat voters who long for the days of the plantation and the slaves that went with it. Today, these ‘slaves’ are also in the thousands of ‘left wing’ activists in the BLM and ‘No Kings’ and anti-ICE protests – ordered into action by their democrat affluent masters, black and white and hispanic, and their masters gain economically from it through the donations – just like the old plantation slave masters using their slaves for for financial gain.
Democrats – 1853’s: “If the slaves are freed, who’s gonna pick our crops and clean our homes?”
Democrats – 2025: “If we deport illegal aliens, who’s gonna pick our crops and clean our homes?”
Kind of like how republicans keep us all worked up about gun rights, while never doing a dammed thing to expand or protect them. Wake up people – the right wing and the left wing are attached to the same bird. Neither party gives a damn about you, your rights or your well-being.
Really considering that they get 3 grand a month per kis pay almost nothing for housing. Free medical and other perks they are making more than the average union worker
1. Democrats are always lying when they pretend to care about the budget.
2. They’re upset about “dramatically faster approval times.” However, if “fingerprints, a passport-style photo, and a $200 tax stamp before undergoing an enhanced background check” are what is required to filter out the baddies, then why wouldn’t you want “dramatically faster approval times”? This proves that they are admitting they don’t really care about the checks, taxes, etc.; they just want to stick it to gun owners.
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The tax stamp for a hand grenade is still $5.00
Nope. A hand grenade is a ‘Destructive Device’, not an ‘Any Other Weapon’. The DD transfer and making tax is and will remain $200. Only the AOW transfer tax – for now – is $5.
Racist headline
“Racist headline”
Only to people with a racist mindset. The rest of us understand the English language (except Miner49er/Missy12).
They should eliminate the ATF approval requirement and sell them over the counter. After all, they are just like a muffler for your car or motorcycle, designed to make it quieter.
The wackos are the ones who assign nefarious purposes to suppressors.
Let’s see: A $1.7 billion “loss” over a decade translates to $170 million per year. Divide that by $200 per tax stamp, and that comes to 850,000 such licenses being requested each year.
Really? Nearly a million such licenses are being requested each and every year? Is that really the case?
Everytown, basically with their stupid…
Everytown : “These are the most dangerous things mankind has ever devised! If people have them the sky will fall, birds will stop laying eggs, civilization will be doomed!”
People: “if I pay $200.00 I can have one though, right?”
Everytown: “yes, its ok then.”
Supressors, SBR, SBS, even AOW, have been in the hands of law abiding people, legally, for over 80 years since this NFA tax law went into effect.
They have also been in the hands of criminals as well these many years.
The NFA did exactly zero to keep ‘prohibited people’ criminals from getting them. It just taxed the law abiding and that was its purpose, ‘regulation of people rights’ by taxation. The NFA despite its name is not a firearms law, it was created by congress as a tax law and that was their specific intent by enacting it no matter the other hype about it, and SCOTUS has repeatedly affirmed over these many years its a tax law.
And ya know who else has them? Law enforcement has them. An innocent person has an 8% chance of being accidently shot by law enforcement with these firearms (SBS/SBR) or any other firearm. An innocent person has a 0.003% chance of being accidently shot by a law abiding civilian with these firearms (SBS/SBR) or any other firearm.
The cops and criminals already have theirs NFA tax free.
Yes they belong in the hands of the law abiding people NFA tax free and NFA free. It does not say “…the right of the people to keep and bears arms, shall not be infringed if they pay a tax.”
“In today’s dollars, the figure would be well over $4,700.”
You are likely using one of the inflation calculators which uses the politically-influenced and famously “adjusted” government inflation rate. A more accurate comparison is to use historical gold prices: In 1934 the price of gold (per several historical gold price sources) was $35/oz. It looks like the price of gold today is somewhere around $3,316 per oz. $200 in 1934, converted to gold and stored in a buried box, and dug up today and sold, would be worth ($200 / $35 = 5.714, 5.714 * $3,316 = $18,947.62) about a tank of gasoline less than $19,000 USD.
NFA: The Hill Gun Control Dies On, and Antis Know It.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/07/nfa-the-hill-gun-control-dies-on-and-antis-know-it/