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A federal judge in Texas handed down a ruling this week that is a massive victory for gun owners in Southeast and South Central Missouri. The ruling dealt a major blow to the legal foundation for the tedious, bureaucratic paperwork required for short-barreled guns and suppressors — all because we got rid of the tax used to justify those requirements.
The judge ruled that key parts of the National Firearms Act of 1934 can no longer be enforced against the Americans who brought the case — because the tax that supposedly justified all that registration paperwork, fingerprinting, and federal record-keeping no longer exists. The One, Big, Beautiful Bill, which I authored, got rid of it.
When writing that legislation, I worked with Congressman David Kustoff, whose district borders Missouri’s 8th Congressional District, to include a provision zeroing out the $200 federal tax the NFA had slapped on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns since 1934. Every House Democrat…