Trump Action Archive

Supporting reports

• Gun Owners of America filed lawsuit challenging National Firearms Act — Within hours of Trump signing the budget reconciliation bill into law, Gun Owners of America and other pro-gun organizations filed a lawsuit claiming the measure makes the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) unconstitutional. The NFA regulated machine guns and short-barrel guns through taxation and registration requirements. The budget reconciliation bill ended those taxes, and plaintiffs argue this eliminates the constitutional justification for the law. Gun Owners of America stated in a press release that its team had been "working behind the scenes with Congress since the November 2024 election to fully repeal the NFA" and that the new law had positioned their lawsuit against the registry.
• Budget bill eliminates $200 tax on suppressors and short-barreled firearms — Trump signed a budget reconciliation bill on July 4, 2025, that eliminated the $200 federal tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, while preserving NFA registration requirements and machine gun restrictions. The provision was drafted by Gun Owners of America and inserted by sympathetic Republican lawmakers including Andrew Clyde, Roger Marshall, Mike Crapo, and Steve Daines.
• Gun Owners of America files lawsuit to overturn National Firearms Act restrictions — Following passage of a budget bill that eliminated the $200 tax on suppressors and short-barreled rifles (while preserving registration requirements), Gun Owners of America filed a lawsuit on July 4, 2025, seeking to overturn NFA restrictions on suppressors and short-barreled long guns entirely. Within a month, 15 Republican-led states joined as plaintiffs. The Firearms Policy Coalition and NRA filed a similar lawsuit on August 1. The litigation represents an escalation of efforts to dismantle one of America's oldest gun laws, passed in 1934.