FPC Slams DOJ’s Continued Defense of National Firearms Act

The Firearms Policy Coalition isn’t exactly known for mincing words. That’s especially true on social media, where a lot of calls for gun control are met with a hardy “F**k you.”

I dig it.

In most of their other communications, they tend to be a little more…well, polite isn’t necessarily the right word, nor is “professional.” No, I think they just get a bit more creative in saying the same thing in a way that will make it in print.

A case in point is the group’s feelings on the Department of Justice and the Trump administration’s continued defense of the National Firearms Act.

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today announced the filing of a combined reply and opposition brief in Jensen v. ATF, an FPC-backed federal lawsuit challenging key provisions of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). FPC is supporting the litigation as part of its nationwide program of strategic litigation to eliminate unconstitutional laws and policies that restrict the right to keep and bear arms. The brief and more information about the case are available at firearmspolicy.org/jensen.

The new filing comes as the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice continues a sustained pattern of aggressively defending the NFA and other federal gun control in court—including fighting to limit injunctive relief and preserve its ability to enforce laws that were held to violate the Second Amendment. Instead of working to end these unlawful restrictions, the DOJ has been actively working to uphold the NFA and to preserve the federal government’s regime of unconstitutional federal restrictions and criminal penalties for peaceable Americans.

“President Trump promised to end unconstitutional gun control like the NFA, but his DOJ is in court fighting to keep every bit of it,” said FPC President Brandon Combs. “If the Trump Administration is at all serious about restoring the right to keep and bear arms, it should immediately stop spending taxpayer resources to defend unconstitutional laws that treat peaceable gun owners like criminals. The President can end the government’s reign of terror with a call. He should pick up the phone and do it.”

See? Kind of the same vibe, but we can print it. Everyone wins.

Not that I don’t like how they handle things on Twitter/X.

It also helps that they’re not wrong.

The truth of the matter is that the NFA was sold to the American people, and defended in the courts, as a tax and not gun control. It was a tax and, as such, fell under Congress’s authority to tax. That’s what they said for years.

Now, though, suppressors and short-barreled long guns are no longer taxed. You can get those without spending a dime beyond the cost of the product itself, but you still need to register it like a machine gun. That means it’s no longer the tax we were told it was and is now, instead, a gun registration scheme.

Federal law alone makes those illegal, to say nothing of the Second Amendment itself. 

These provisions should go away forever, and while the Trump administration can’t just will them away because that’s not how our laws work, the DOJ could stop defending them like our nation’s very existence hinges on this registration effort’s continuing existence.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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