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.
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
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) July 3, 2025
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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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
— SAF (@2AFDN) July 3, 2025
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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