President Donald Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill has already sparked legal actions on both sides of the aisle, and on the pro-gun side, several gun rights groups have already taken action on an important part of Trump's bill.
According to Newsweek, multiple gun rights groups and organizations have filed suit in an attempt to "dismantle what is left of the National Firearms Act (NFA)" after Trump's bill was signed into law.
The president's signature legislation reduced the "NFA's excise tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and any other weapons."
The gun rights groups argue that the new legislation eliminates the tax and as a result, the NFA should be eliminated.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, including Gun Owners of America (GOA) dubbed the lawsuit the "One Big Beautiful Lawsuit" in their efforts to quash what's left of the NFA.
Newsweek noted:
The National Firearms Act was first enacted in 1934 to regulates firearms considered the most dangerous and crack down on gangland crime in the Prohibition era.
The law had imposed a $200 tax on machine guns and shotguns and rifles with barrels shorter than 18 inches, and also required the federal registration of these types of firearms.
The tax on certain weapons has been a point of contention for decades. Trump's bill reduced the tax to $0, and gun rights groups are essentially saying that there's no longer a need for the NFA as a result.
However, the tax still applies to machine guns and explosive devices, but has been eliminated dthe "$200 fee that gun owners are charged when purchasing silencers and short-barreled rifles."
🚨BREAKING🚨
GOA, @GunFoundation, & allies just filed our One Big Beautiful Lawsuit to gut the NFA.
On this Independence Day our team does what Congress failed to do—fight for gun owners. pic.twitter.com/OoReiCg5I7
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) July 5, 2025
Newsweek added:
The authors of the NFA "left no doubt that the NFA was an exercise of the taxing power, and the Supreme Court upheld it on that basis," says the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Users across social media weighed in on the lawsuit.
"Will the case be able to move forward before the $0 tax is in effect in Jan 1st 2025?" one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "Y’all know this has to get to SCOTUS before the Democrats increase the tax next time they have a chance? This has to be expedited big time. If they put the tax back it kinda moots the case. I’m not a lawyer so I might be wrong but this is how I understand it."
Only time will tell if the gun rights groups prevail in their efforts.
