Why is the Trump administration defending a gun control law that should be thrown out? From Derrick Broze at tlavagabond.substack.com:
Gun rights groups have labeled legal arguments advanced by the Trump administration in an ongoing lawsuit as the “most anti-Second Amendment” ever filed by a Republican administration.
Gun Owners of America (GOA), a leading gun rights organization, has strongly condemned a brief filed by the Trump-era Department of Justice, calling it an “alarmingly expansive theory of federal authority” over firearm ownership. The DOJ’s November 21 filing was submitted in response to a lawsuit brought by GOA and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), which seeks to have the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) declared unconstitutional and nullified in its entirety.
The plaintiffs argue that when President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law on July 4, 2025—a bill that removed the NFA’s $200 transfer and manufacturing tax on silencers, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns—the tax’s removal rendered the entire NFA unenforceable and effectively repealed it. GOA and GOF are using the tax repeal as leverage to challenge and strike down the 1934 law altogether. Fifteen states, including Texas and Florida, have joined the lawsuit in support of the organizations.
🚨BREAKING🚨
In an ultimate betrayal of the 2nd Amendment, the Trump admin is DEFENDING the archaic National Firearms Act of 1934.@TheJusticeDept supports gun registration under the Necessary & Proper and Commerce Clauses, says the $0 NFA tax is still a “valid” tax. pic.twitter.com/lGBSadlmqr
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) November 21, 2025
Although the bill eliminated the $200 tax, it retained the National Firearms Act’s (NFA) requirements for registration, background checks, and prior approval from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The legislation also leaves unchanged all existing restrictions on machine guns.
Isn’t it a copy of the NSDAP firearms laws?