BELLEVUE, Wash. — July 3, 2025 — With the passage of the One Massive, Lovely Invoice (OBBB), which eliminates the excise tax on silencers and quick barreled rifles, quick barreled shotguns and “Any Different Weapons,” or AOWs, the Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions have issued a joint assertion indicating their intention to problem the remaining registration necessities for the affected arms underneath the Nationwide Firearms Act (NFA) as unconstitutional.
“The NFA is nothing greater than a tax scheme which has imposed an unconstitutional burden on Individuals since 1934,” mentioned SAF Government Director Adam Kraut. “The registration of these things was solely justified because the means to make sure taxes on them had been paid. With the One Massive, Lovely Invoice zeroing out the tax for silencers and quick barreled firearms, the registration scheme serves no different goal than to create an illegal barrier to maintain folks from exercising their Second Modification rights. Our intention with this new lawsuit is to fully take away these boundaries.”
Because the teams famous of their assertion, “Whereas we proceed to combat for the entire legislative elimination of the NFA, our organizations are proud to face collectively in a brand new strategic lawsuit to problem the constitutionality of the NFA in Federal Courtroom.”
Becoming a member of SAF are the American Suppressor Affiliation, Nationwide Rifle Affiliation and Firearms Coverage Coalition.
“SAF has been preventing for greater than 50 years to take away pointless burdens to our constitutional freedoms, and we welcome the chance to combat for the additional dismantling of the NFA in court docket,” mentioned SAF founder and Government Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “The reforms within the One Massive, Lovely Invoice symbolize the most important blow to the NFA since its inception, and we totally help its full repeal. Similar to we’ve performed for greater than 5 many years, SAF will proceed to combat so all Individuals can have the liberty to train their Second Modification rights for generations to come back.”
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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt training, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the basic rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of the USA Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the ideas of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. By way of public training initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workout routines the fitting to maintain and bear arms.
