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‘Enjoined as Unconstitutional’: How Tax Cut Bill Unraveled 92-Year-Old Gun Control Provision

A federal court struck down parts of a 92-year-old gun control law tied to a $200 tax on suppressors and certain firearms.

The 1934 National Firearms Act imposed a $200 tax and required registration and approval for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns. U.S. District Judge James Hendrix, of the Northern District of Texas, on Wednesday ruled that the provision violates the Constitution’s commerce clause.

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives defended the law in the case of Silencer Shop Foundation v. ATF.

However, Hendrix, a Trump appointee, argued in his opinion that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law last year by the president, effectively nullified the 1934 tax. Once Congress eliminated the tax on making and transferring sound suppressors and short-barreled firearms, the constitutional foundation for those old regulatory provisions disappeared, he........

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