National Firearms Act

A bill put forward by Delegate Mark Levine (D) would make it a felony to own legally purchased firearm suppressors in Virginia.

Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced legislation Tuesday to streamline the ATF approval process for guns regulated by the National Firearms Act (NFA) and completely remove short-barreled rifles from NFA purview.

the NRA issued a statement expressing disappointment that citizens who legally purchased the accessories are not allowed to keep them.

The Chicago Sun-Times is praising prohibition era gun controls that are still in place and have failed to stop school shooting after school shooting and mass public attack after mass public attack.

President Trump’s Department of Justice wants to spend $13.2 million to hasten the “approval process” for suppressors and other items regulated under the National Firearms Act (1934).

The Department of Justice is proposing a change whereby the definition of “machinegun” would be broadened to include bump stocks.

An NPR overview of the current push to deregulate firearm suppressors counters the gun controllers’ doomsday claims by pointing to ATF figures which show suppressors “are seldom used in crime.”

While Republicans in the House are pushing legislation to roll back the jumbled federal oversight of firearm suppressors, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) says she is ready to fight efforts to make “deadly gun silencers” easier to acquire.

In a “white paper” published by the Washington Post, ATF Associate Deputy Director Ronald Turk shows that a continued ban on the importation of numerous “assault weapons” is nonsensical.

In a recently published ATF “white paper,” Associate Deputy Director Ronald Turk sets forth “points for discussion” that include his opinion that the continued inclusion of suppressors under National Firearms Act (NFA) regulations is “archaic” and “should be reevaluated.”

U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten ruled on Tuesday that Kansas’ Second Amendment Protection Act cannot shield Kansans from prosecutions over violations of gun regulations instituted at the federal level.

Representatives Jeff Duncan (R-SC-3) and John Carter (R-TX-31) introduced legislation on January 9 that will eliminate the paper trail and federal tax on firearm suppressors.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recently released a report highlighting state-by-state ownership of guns regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934.

On May 31, the New York Times ran an opinion column which suggested that now is the time to register every gun and fingerprint and photograph every gun owner.

Silencer sales are skyrocketing in the wake of President Obama’s executive gun controls, as consumers rush to get the devices before rules curtailing purchases by trusts go into effect.

On October 22 Representative Matt Salmon (R-AZ-5) announced the Hearing Protection Act (HPA), a bill aimed at removing suppressors from National Firearms Act oversight so Americans can more easily acquire them for hearing protection while target shooting or hunting.

On July 7 two men allegedly tried to break into a machine gun store and did not realize the owner was inside until it was too late.

On June 3, Breitbart News reported that GOP Representatives were adding riders to a Department of Jutice appropriations bill to block—and in some cases roll back—DOJ efforts to implement backdoor gun control.