President Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill has already sparked legal actions on both sides of the aisle.
On the pro-Second Amendment 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).”
The move comes 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 regulate 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.”