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NFA, Suppressors & SBRs
Tax stamps, ATF forms, brace rules, and the regulatory maze for NFA items.
11 stories on this beat · updated Aug 17, 2026
Clyde and Plaintiff-State AGs Press DOJ: Make the NFA Ruling Work Nationwide
The political pressure is one demand: stop administering two NFA systems.
atf regulationNSSF to Dealers: The NFA Win Is Live — But the Compliance Map Is a Minefield
Do not read a plaintiff-limited injunction as a nationwide repeal. NSSF just put that in writing for every FFL.
litigationDOJ Let the NFA Injunction Take Effect — Then the First Unregistered Suppressor Transfers Followed
The emergency deadline passed. The paperwork regime for covered suppressors is no longer theoretical — it stopped.
atf regulation · vaultATF Wants Same-State Guns Shipped to Your Door — NICS Still Required
If you live hours from a dealer, ATF is finally proposing to treat Title I firearms more like the remote transfer world NFA buyers already know.
litigation · vaultTexas Judge: NFA Registry for Suppressors and SBRs Is Unconstitutional
A Northern District of Texas judge just told ATF it cannot keep a gun registry for items Congress stopped taxing.
news · vaultTrump Yanks Suppressors From State Dept. — Manufacturers Win Big
The Trump administration just ripped suppressor exports out of the State Department's Cold War weapons-control framework and handed oversight to the Commerce Department — a regulatory gut-punch to bureaucrats who spent years treating hunters' ear protection like Javelin missiles.
news · vaultNRA, FPC & SAF Just Put the $200 SBR Tax Stamp on Trial
For 90 years, the federal government charged gun owners $200, made them wait up to a year, and demanded a permission slip to own a short-barreled rifle — and on Monday, four of the most powerful 2A organizations in America walked into the Sixth Circuit and said: prove you were ever allowed to do that.
news · vaultCongress Killed the $200 Tax. The Feds Kept Your Fingerprints.
The federal government collected $0 in suppressor taxes this year—and is still fingerprinting, photographing, and registering every buyer in a national database it can no longer legally justify keeping.
news · vaultYour AR-15 Can Run a Belt — No NFA Stamp, No Apologies
Anti-gun politicians have spent thirty years insisting you don't need more than ten rounds. The FightLite MCR just showed up with a belt.
news · vaultNFA Checks DOUBLED in May—Here's What They're Not Telling You
While the mainstream press was busy eulogizing American gun culture, half a million law-abiding owners quietly doubled the rate at which they're registering suppressors and short-barreled rifles—federally, legally, on the record.
news · vault9th Circuit: Suppressors Not Protected by 2A
The Ninth Circuit just used a criminal alien's unregistered suppressor case to declare suppressors fall outside Second Amendment protection — and the ruling lands on every law-abiding NFA owner in nine states.