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Several pro-Second Amendment organizations pushed back against the Trump administration for prosecuting alleged violations of the National Firearms Act (NFA) in a brief filed with a federal appeals court Monday.<\/p>\n

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The National Rifle Association (NRA), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) joined the American Suppressor Association in submitting the amicus (\u201cfriend of the court\u201d) brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The brief criticized the administration\u2019s defense of the NFA and argued that the charges against Christopher Machamer under the law for making short-barreled rifles were unconstitutional. (RELATED: SCOTUS Showdown Over Gun Suppressors Looms After Appeals Court Creates \u2018Circuit Split\u2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHistorical tradition recognizes only a narrow class of arms that fall outside the Second Amendment\u2019s protections: weapons that are both dangerous and unusual. Short-barreled rifles are neither,\u201d the brief filed by the gun-rights groups says in its early pages. \u201cShort-barreled rifles are lawful to possess in 45 states, and more than 1.1 million are lawfully possessed nationwide, so they are \u2018in common use\u2019 and necessarily not \u2018unusual.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNor are they uniquely \u2018dangerous,\u2019\u201d the brief continues. \u201cShort-barreled rifles do not meaningfully differ in function or lethality from other common rifles (long-barreled rifled-firearms) or handguns (short-barreled rifled-firearms). Therefore, short-barreled rifles are protected arms.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The reconciliation bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2025 contained provisions that reduced the taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and guns described as \u201cany other weapon\u201d to $0 after the Senate parliamentarian struck language that removed those items from NFA\u2019s purview.<\/p>\n

Later, the pro-Second Amendment groups targeted the Fifth Circuit\u2019s in the Comeaux ruling, when it said that suppressors were protected by the Second Amendment as \u201carms,\u201dbut that the conviction of Brennan Comeaux for possessing unregistered suppressors was not unconstitutional by describing the NFA as operating like a \u201cshall issue\u201d concealed-carry permit issuing standard.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe NFA is a registration and taxation regime. \u2018Registration requirements \u2026 do not meaningfully serve the purpose of ensuring that owners know how to operate guns safely\u2019 and are instead \u2018often seen as half-a-loaf measures aimed at deterring gun ownership,\u2019\u201d the brief says, quoting a dissent written in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit\u2019s <\/strong>ruling in \u201cHeller II.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Supreme Court has indicated that firearm registration is unconstitutional. In Miller, which challenged the NFA\u2019s application to short-barreled shotguns, the Court\u2019s analysis focused on whether short-barreled shotguns were protected arms,\u201d the brief continued. \u201cYet \u2018if registration could be required for all guns, [Miller] could have just said so and ended its analysis; there would have been no need to go to the trouble of considering whether the gun in question was the kind protected under the Second Amendment.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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While some Second Amendment advocates have expressed frustration over the Trump administration\u2019s Department of Justice (DOJ) defending gun laws, notably the NFA, from legal challenges, a top administration official told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the criticism was misplaced.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand people have policy differences with DOJ\u2019s enforcement of federal laws, but, in my opinion, and I\u2019ve said this to many gun groups, the appropriate place to launch those policy discussions is in Congress, not with us,\u201d Assistant Attorney General for Civil Right Harmeet Dhillon said during a June interview with the DCNF. \u201cWe have, I mean, not me, but other people in this building regularly respond to all kinds of litigation on behalf of the United States where I don\u2019t necessarily agree with what we\u2019re defending.\u201d (RELATED: Pro-Gun Groups, GOP Lawmakers And Trump All Want To Make Right To Carry A Reality\u2014But They Can\u2019t Agree How)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[It\u2019s] the other team that picks and chooses which laws they\u2019re gonna enforce, so that\u2019s not what we do,\u201d Dhillon added.<\/p>\n

SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Konstadinos Moros told the DCNF that despite the Trump administration defending \u201cunconstitutional laws,\u201d the group did not feel let down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are mostly happy with the Trump Admin, but they are defending some gun laws we think are unconstitutional, like the NFA\u2019s registration requirements,\u201d Moros said. \u201cIt\u2019s not surprising they are defending such laws, as the DOJ will generally always defend federal law subject to limited exceptions. But we will do our job and try to defeat them in those instances where federal law violates the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NRA, DOJ and FPC did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n

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