CURRENT AND FUTURE CCRKBA MEMBERS COVERED BY NFA INJUNCTION
BELLEVUE, WA – Thanks to the Justice Department’s decision to not seek extension of the stay of last week’s ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas striking down registration requirements on certain firearms and suppressors under the National Firearms Act, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is reminding its current and future members that the ruling applies directly to them.
CCRKBA is a plaintiff in Jensen v. ATF, and as such, its present and future members are covered by the injunction issued last week by District Judge James Wesley Hendrix. His ruling declared that the remaining registration scheme for short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, any other weapons (AOW’s) and suppressors in the National Firearms Act (NFA) is unconstitutional.
“This was a great victory for the Constitution,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “It is also a win specifically for our current and future members. More than 90 years ago, the NFA established the $200 tax and registration requirements on certain classes of firearms, including suppressors. When the tax was eliminated by Congress with last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill, there was no longer any plausible reason for the registration requirements to continue. We went to court and the court agreed.”
CCRKBA is joined by FPC Action Foundation, Texas Rifle Association, Hot Shots Custom and three individuals. Our case is supported by our sister organization, the Second Amendment Foundation.
“In plain language,” Gottlieb explained, “if you are a current CCRKBA member, this is a good reason to keep your membership from lapsing. If you join CCRKBA as a new member, you are automatically covered under the language in Judge Hendrix’s ruling.
“We filed this lawsuit last year because it was the right thing to do,” he recalled, “and the Justice Department’s decision to not pursue the case clearly underscores just how right we were.”
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