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NFA, Suppressors & SBRs
Tax stamps, ATF forms, brace rules, and the regulatory maze for NFA items.
16 stories on this beat · updated Jun 11, 2026
Congress 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.
newsYour 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.
newsNFA 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.
news9th 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.
victory · vaultFifth Circuit Just Reversed Itself on Suppressors
The Fifth Circuit reversed its own adverse suppressor ruling in a single sentence, and if you own—or want to own—a suppressor, this is the most important court news you'll read this week.
legislation · vaultSenate Rules Did Bloomberg's Job For Free
The gun-control lobby didn't have to lift a finger: the Senate parliamentarian just did their dirty work for them, stripping suppressor deregulation from reconciliation and slamming a 60-vote wall back in front of every law-abiding owner still waiting months for the right to protect their hearing.
nfa · vault6 Million Suppressors: The NFA Is Running Out of Excuses
Six million suppressors. Legally owned. Background-checked. Taxed. Registered. And every single one of them is a nail in the National Firearms Act's coffin.
nfa · vault6 Million Suppressors: The NFA Is Losing Its Own Argument
Six million suppressors. Registered. Documented. In civilian hands — and every single one is a bullet in the legal brief that could gut the 1934 National Firearms Act.
editorial · vaultNRA Declared Victory — Your SBR Is Still on a Federal List
The NRA balanced its books, took a bow in Houston, and called it a win — while every suppressor owner in America still owes the federal government $200 and a spot on a registry.
legislation · vaultByrd Rule Kills Suppressor Freedom — What Hits Next
A Senate process rule just did what Everytown and Giffords couldn't do at the ballot box: it killed suppressor deregulation without a single floor vote, without a single senator going on record against your hearing.
court ruling · vault6 Million Suppressors: The NFA Has Nowhere Left to Hide
Six million suppressors are now in civilian hands — and that single number may be the legal killshot the NFA has been dreading for 90 years.
victory · vaultThe $200 Suppressor Tax Is Dead. America Went Wild.
The moment the federal government stopped charging Americans $200 for the privilege of hearing protection, the market didn't just grow—it detonated.
editorial · vaultNRA Fixed the Money. The NFA Trap? Still Wide Open.
The NRA balanced its books in Houston — and left every suppressor and short-barreled rifle in America exactly where gun controllers want them: chained inside a Depression-era tax-and-registration trap that was never about safety and always about control.
legislation · vaultByrd Rule Kills Suppressor Win—Here's How We Take It Back
Gun owners didn't lose a vote on suppressor reform—they lost a procedural chess match rigged by a Senate rule, and Everytown is already spiking the football over a win they never had to earn.
nfa · vault6 Million Suppressors—And the NFA Can't Survive the Math
Nearly 6 million suppressors are in the hands of law-abiding American civilians right now—and that single number may be what finally kills the National Firearms Act.
atf action · vaultATF Just Killed the CLEO Copy Rule. Your Sheriff No Longer Vetoes Your NFA.
Among the 34 proposed rule changes the DOJ and ATF dropped on April 29, one quietly delivers what NFA buyers in blue-state cities and counties have been asking for since the original 1934 statute: an end to the requirement that you notify your local chief law enforcement officer when you buy a suppressor, short-barrel rifle, or short-barrel shotgun.