AUSTIN, Texas -- A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday struck down a 1930s law that imposed regulations on firearm suppressors and guns that are considered the most dangerous more than a year after President Donald Trump signed a bill eliminating taxes on those items.
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National Firearms Act no longer applies to silencers, judge rules
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A Federal Judge Rejects National Firearms Act Regulations, Saying Their Tax Rationale No Longer Applies
A large part of the National Firearms Act is now unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, in a decision that could erase registration requirements for sales or transfer of silencers and short-barreled long guns.
A Texas judge has struck down the National Firearms Act to knock regulations on firearm suppressors and some guns. The decision Wednesday comes after President Donald Trump’s tax bill last year eliminated the $200 tax on select items. The ruling…
A federal judge has effectively gutted a portion of the National Firearms Act relating to firearm suppressors, among other things. United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas ruled Wednesday, August 5, 2026, that the National Firearms Act no longer applies to …
AUSTIN, Texas -- A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday struck down a 1930s law that imposed regulations on firearm suppressors and guns that are considered the most dangerous more than a year after President Donald Trump signed a bill eliminating taxes on those items.
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