The tax stamp was reduced to zero on these NFA items. A federal judge ruled that with no tax, Congress has no power to regulate them (unless they renew the law under commerce clause power) and granted an injunction on enforcement, but to the parties involved in the lawsuit. The involved parties are really broad, like every member of the GOA.
Some places are selling suppressors with only a background check, not the fingerprinting and registration. The ATF did nothing. It is all very public. Other places are doing biz as usual. Still others are playing the waiting game and saving the paperwork just in case. The DOJ and ATF are being close lipped. They have 60 days to file an appeal.
Is this a ploy? Something else? Good news?
I fully expect this to happen, since it doesn’t require them to pass any new legislature and they can just arbitrarily rewrite passed legislature after the fact.
It would take a new law. The NFA is a tax law but using the commerce clause like the Gun Free School Zone Act, would take a new law.
It didn’t take a new law when Niggercare was legalized by the SCOTUS, which just arbitrarily said on its own “No, this isn’t a tax despite being written identically to every other tax.”
They don’t care.
Apples and oranges.
The law was passed as a tax, they need a new law to use the commerce clause.
Words still mean things.
Shall not be infringed.