Today, a federal court in the Northern District of Texas struck down the National Firearms Act’s registration requirements for suppressors, short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns, and B&T USA is proud to have been a named plaintiff in the case.
The court found that when Congress zeroed out the NFA’s making and transfer taxes, it removed the constitutional foundation for the registration scheme built to collect them. Nearly a century of paperwork, fingerprints and wait times — resting on a tax that no longer exists. It’s an honor to stand alongside other brave industry leaders, organizations and the states that joined this fight.
This is a milestone, not a finish line. The ruling is stayed while the government weighs an appeal, and we expect this to keep moving through the courts. B&T USA will stay in this fight as a plaintiff for as long as it takes, because the people who carry our products, from law enforcement to responsible citizens, shouldn’t need federal permission to own equipment that a century-old tax scheme never should have covered.
We helped start this fight on July 4, 2025. We’re not walking away from it now.
— B&T USA
