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Winning the long battle against the National Firearms Act 

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President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act not only scored an important win for law-abiding gun owners, but it also created an opportunity for the National Rifle Association to help lead a strategic legal challenge to the unconstitutional National Firearms Act of 1934. 

The final version of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” removed the burdensome $200 federal tax on short-barreled rifles and shotguns, firearm suppressors, and “any other weapons” defined within the NFA, but the law’s original language would have also ended unnecessary registration and paperwork mandates currently required to lawfully purchase these firearms and items. 

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