Texas NFA Ruling: Will DOJ Appeal Kill the Tax Stamp
Texas NFA Ruling: Will DOJ Appeal Kill the Tax Stamp. A federal judge ruled the NFA unconstitutional for suppressors and SBRs. The DOJ has until 5 p.m. today to file an appeal—here's what's at stake. { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/gun_guru#person", "name": "Gun Guru", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/gun_guru", "description": "Gun Guru is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/58d66f2f-06ea-4f36-97bf-45035316660a.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/texas-nfa-ruling-doj-appeal-deadline#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/texas-nfa-ruling-doj-appeal-deadline" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/texas-nfa-ruling-doj-appeal-deadline", "headline": "Texas NFA Ruling: Will DOJ Appeal Kill the Tax Stamp", "name": "Texas NFA Ruling: Will DOJ Appeal Kill the Tax Stamp", "description": "A federal judge ruled the NFA unconstitutional for suppressors and SBRs. The DOJ has until 5 p.m. today to file an appeal—here's what's at stake.", "articleSection": "Suppressors & NFA", "articleBody": "The Texas NFA ruling is a federal court decision that declared the National Firearms Act unconstitutional as applied to suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and AOWs (any other weapons). The reasoning is simple: the NFA only survived past legal challenges as a taxing mechanism under Congress's power to tax, and the tax on those items is now zero. In his breaking coverage on Greyhive, Todd from Gun Guru laid out the stakes with a hard clock running: the DOJ had until 5:00 p.m. on the seventh and final day to file an appeal. As he filmed at roughly 1:00 p.m., no appeal had hit his DOJ feeds—only unrelated notices about a meat processing plant, a $2.5 million civil penalty, and a forced-labor indictment. If the ruling stands and no appeal lands, suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs come off the NFA registry entirely—no more Form 4s, no more Form 1s, no more $200 tax stamp paperwork. Key Takeaways A Texas federal judge ruled the NFA unconstitutional for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs because the tax on those items is now $0. The DOJ had 7 days to appeal; day seven's deadline was 5:00 p.m., and as of Todd's filming at 1:00 p.m. no appeal had been filed. The DOJ is split—a majority reportedly oppose an appeal while Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate pushes for one. Congress told the DOJ not to appeal and to implement the change nationwide, mirroring how the pistol brace ruling ended. Machine…