MOTION FILED IN THIRD SAF-SUPPORTED NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT LAWSUIT

Second Amendment Foundation ^ | 4/27/2026 | Second Amendment Foundation

[CodeToad]

BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 27, 2026 — Plaintiffs have filed a motion for summary judgment in Roberts v. ATF, one of the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) three supported lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act’s (NFA) registration requirements for short-barreled firearms and silencers.

Until President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the NFA established a $200 tax and registration regime on certain classes of firearms including silencers and short-barreled rifles, purportedly drawing from Congressional authority to levy taxes. After the One Big Beautiful Bill eliminated the $200 tax on those arms, SAF and its partners filed three lawsuits challenging the remaining registration requirements, because without the tax, Congress’ reliance on their taxing power is no longer justifiable.

“As we’ve stated in each of our three National Firearms Act challenges, Congress lacks the authority to continue requiring the registration of protected arms under the NFA,” said SAF Senior Director of Legal Operations Bill Sack. “The Court has everything they need to put this case to bed and end this infringement on the rights of Americans nationwide.”

SAF itself is a named plaintiff in the NFA lawsuit Brown v. ATF and is now backing two additional challenges – Jensen v. ATF and this case, Roberts v. ATF. Filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, the named plaintiffs in Roberts are Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Center for Human Liberty, American Suppressor Association Foundation, Buckeye Firearms Association, Meridian Ordnance and two private citizens.

“We have the best opportunity in almost a century to end the registration scheme for silencers and short-barreled rifles under the NFA,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “SAF is seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by supporting three separate cases challenging the unconstitutional law, and we’re optimistic this Second Amendment infringement will finally be lifted.”

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KEYWORDS: firearms; nfa; silencer

[CodeToad]

This is about silencers, short barrel rifles, etc., and the $200 tax and registration applied to them by the ATF.

This is about how President Trump is working a fantastic end run on congress not passing a law to end the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) that taxes silencers and other devices $200 and requires strict and abusive registrations.

The logic is that the latest budget bill cut the $200 tax to $0, so, without any tax, the registration violates the law. Therefore, the registration must end.

[CodeToad]

P.S. The NRA is only about money to sustain the NRA. The SAF is about fighting for We the People!

[Lockbox]

If only Washington DC has stronger guns laws, no one could take a shot at the President. 🤔🤔🤔

[sevlex]

True dat.

[rarestia]

I became an endowment member of the NRA over 15 years ago. I’ve not seen a magazine or request for donations since. Not sure what happened to them.

[CodeToad]

Now that you mention it, I haven’t seen a begathon from them either in years.

[Manuel OKelley]

SAF, FPC, GOA and a couple others are doing all the heavy lifting, the NRA has basically become a “gun control light” organization only interested in it’s own self preservation

[2nd amendment mama]

AMEN!!!