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On August 9 in Short-barreled rifles are finally legal\u2014sort of\u2014maybe\u2026 I wrote about a recent decision by a Texas federal judge striking down portions of the 1934 National Firearms Act. That act was written under congressional taxing powers, but when President Trump\u2019s Big Beautiful Bill eliminated that tax for NFA items, the lawful basis for requiring registration of short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and suppressors vanished. In effect, the constitutional basis of the NFA disappeared.<\/p>

Read more Bypassing the strait?<\/a><\/p>\n

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The catch is the judge\u2019s injunction, which hasn\u2019t yet been appealed by the DOJ but might be, applies only to the parties to the suit and certain manufacturers and dealers in those states that were parties to the suit. The Supreme Court has ruled out nationwide injunctions by activist leftist judges, restricting them only to the parties at hand in lawsuits. That\u2019s a good thing, not that some of those rogue judges are paying attention.<\/p>\n

While I confined that article to short-barreled rifles and shotguns, many Americans have considered the injunction an opportunity to buy suppressors without government registration and permission. However, suppressors are still treated like firearms, so a Form 4473 and a federal computer check are still required; there is still a paper trail. At my home blog, I went into greater detail, including listing the parties\u2014which includes 15 states– technically covered under the injunction. I ended that article with this warning:<\/p>\n

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So, buy an SBR, short-barreled shotgun, or suppressor now while you can, possibly without being entered into a federal database?\u00a0Caveat emptor\u2014let the buyer beware.\u00a0Until the law itself is entirely, nationally, struck down and\/or completely repealed by Congress, you\u2019re relying on the honor, word, and ethics of princes and bureaucrats.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s virtually always a bad bet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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At The Truth About Guns,\u00a0Scott Witner relayed a Second Amendment lawyer\u2019s warning about the intentions of DOJ and ATF bureaucrats should Democrats\/Communists seize power.<\/p>\n

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In a recent video \u2014\u00a0\u201cLawyer Warns: ATF Is Going Full Revenge Mode?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 he relayed what he says he\u2019s hearing in off-the-record conversations with people who have contacts inside ATF and DOJ: the ideological, anti-gun faction within those agencies is privately promising a reckoning. Not today. Later \u2014 the next time their side is back in power. And the target, he says, is precisely the paper trail being generated right now by every registration-free suppressor transfer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Take the link for the 10:30 video.<\/p>\n

The deep state yet exists, and its operatives are in every federal agency, doing what they can during the Trump Administration to slow-roll and sabotage Trump\u2019s every gain for individual liberty, and waiting for the freedom a Democrat Administration will give them to get revenge on Normal Americans who think they have constitutional rights. They\u2019re particularly filled with rage over gun rights.<\/p>\n

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His [the anonymous lawyer\u2019s] blunt framing: they won\u2019t care what the guidance said, and they won\u2019t care much what some judge ruled. Even a case they ultimately lose still costs the defendant years and a fortune in legal bills. As the old courthouse adage goes, you can beat the rap, but you can\u2019t beat the ride. \u201cThe process is the punishment,\u201d he says \u2014 and there would be a lot of process to go around.<\/p>

Read more Your next blue city DSA mayor?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Just as I warned, Americans shouldn’t\u00a0rely on the honor or adherence to the Constitution of resentful federal bureaucrats.<\/p>\n

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The reason the warning exists is that we\u2019ve watched enforcement intensity swing with the change of administrations every 4 years. Under the Biden administration, ATF\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d inspection policy drove FFL license revocations from a handful a year to record highs \u2014 from single digits in 2021 to well over 100 a year in 2023 and 2024, in many cases over paperwork. The current DOJ\u00a0rescinded that policy in April 2025, stood up a Second Amendment Task Force, and by 2026 had folded it into a broader package of pro-gun rule changes.<\/p>\n

Same statutes. Same forms. Wildly different posture \u2014 entirely because the leadership changed. And when ATF wants to turn enforcement on ordinary owners, it has shown it will: recall the agency\u2019s\u00a0mass Form 1 disapprovals aimed at homemade silencers. Now apply that swing to the several hundred thousand people who took possession of unregistered suppressors during a specific window, and you understand why the attorney\u2019s sources think there\u2019s a target-rich environment waiting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Take the link and read the whole thing. The ultimate problem is that these welcome changes are only a legal ruling from a single federal judge. The NFA still largely exists, and Congress still has to act. Even when Republicans had a past substantial majority, they weren\u2019t moved to deal with the NFA. And this is the Congress that can\u2019t pass the SAVE Act, with such\u00a0overwhelming and rare public approval.<\/p>\n

Caveat emptor: let the buyer beware.<\/p>\n

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is<\/em>\u00a0Stately McDaniel Manor.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>

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