And I’ll put a side note here. I know that the Attorney General’s office, they watch my videos. You guys and gals need to get right with history. Get right with the Constitution now. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. What you are about to hear today is not commentary. It is not speculation. It is not a rumor, a leak, or theory. It is a formal, signed letter from members of the United States Congress to the Attorney General of the United States directly addressing the Department of Justice’s refusal, outright refusal, to follow Congress’s intent after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated key National Firearms Act taxes.

I want to begin by publicly thanking and acknowledging all of the work that the Gun Owners of America Federal Affairs team put into taking the lead on this. They are instrumental in getting members of Congress to join the effort and to co-sign this letter. They have been instrumental and used their network of members to create grassroots activism from their email list. So what they have done, they have kind of moved mountains to get Congress members to go on record to tell the AG you need to do something and do it now. So if you haven’t joined GOA, do it and do it now and help us continue to put heat on Pam Bondi.

Guys and gals, this document matters. It matters because it strikes at the heart of a question Americans have been asking for nearly a century. Can the federal government continue to enforce gun registration schemes when the constitutional justification for those schemes no longer exists? Congress is now answering that question clearly, explicitly, and on the record. The Founders warned us this moment would come. James Madison, the principal author of the Constitution, the father of the Constitution told us, quote, if men were angels, no government would be necessary, end quote. That’s from Federalist 51. And because men are not angels, the Constitution placed strict limits on federal power, limits that do not disappear just because an agency finds regulation convenient.

This letter lays out in plain constitutional language that the National Firearms Act only survived because it was upheld as a tax. And when that tax was eliminated, the justification for registration collapsed with it. Thomas Jefferson warned us about exactly this kind of government drift. He said, quote, in questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. Now, what you are about to hear is Congress attempting to reapply those chains. I want you to listen carefully, not just as gun owners, but as citizens, because this document is a roadmap for the next phase of the Second Amendment’s litigation and executive accountability.

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In enacting this bill into law, Congress affirmed its position that the taxation and registration provisions of the National Firearms Act are inseparably linked, and it expressed its intent to repeal the NFA’s registration and transfer requirements by eliminating the associated taxes on certain firearms and silencers. In light of the Department’s recent filing opposing this interpretation, we must express our serious concern and disappointment that the Department of Justice has chosen to advance a theory that not only conflicts with Congress’s express intent, but also disregards the constitutional structure upon which the NFA has rested since 1934.

Therefore, we again urge the Department of Justice to adopt and advance Congress’s stated position in all litigation concerning these provisions, to ensure that congressional intent is accurately represented and upheld before the courts. As you are well aware, Congress enacted the National Firearms Act in 1934, imposing an excise tax of $200, equivalent to nearly $5,000 today, on the manufacture and transfer of certain firearms. The NFA also established burdensome registration requirements for gun owners seeking to transfer NFA-regulated firearms, including the submission to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives of personal identifying information such as name, date of birth, demographic details, fingerprints, home address, and the physical location of the firearms.

Congress enacted the NFA pursuant to its taxing power under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. The Supreme Court in Sosinski v. United States, 1937, held that the NFA’s registration provisions were supportable as in aid of Congress’s proper exercise of the taxing power. Furthermore, the Supreme Court in the United States v. Constantine in 1935, held that a tax that doesn’t generate revenue cannot be justified as a tax. The registration requirements under the NFA are in fact inseparably linked to its taxation provisions. Registration serves as the mechanism by which the ATF accounts for the tax paid on each firearm, identified by its serial number.

The tax stamp affixed by the ATF to an NFA transfer and registration application reflects both the firearm’s serial number and the amount of tax paid for the transfer. Moreover, the NFA’s criminal provisions pertain exclusively to the failure to pay or register the payment of this tax with the ATF. Any reinterpretation of the NFA that allows registration to persist once taxation has been removed contradicts the statute’s text, its structure, and Supreme Court precedent. On July 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which eliminated the transfer in making taxes for certain classes of firearms regulated under the National Firearms Act.

Specifically, Section 70436 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act sets the NFA excise tax at $0 for short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, firearms classified under the NFA’s Any Other Weapon category, and silencers. This landmark legislation represents the most significant advancement for Second Amendment freedoms in many decades. Following the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s elimination of the tax on a broad class of firearms regulated under the NFA, the constitutional foundation for applying the NFA’s transfer and registration requirements to those $0 tax firearms no longer exists. These requirements now operate without any corresponding exercise of Congress’s taxing power.

As the Supreme Court upheld the NFA’s provisions only as in aid of that power, and since the relevant excise taxes have been repealed, the transfer and registration requirements should likewise be understood as repealed with respect to firearms now subject to a $0 tax. The Department’s recent filing disregards this reality and advances a theory that would effectively transform the NFA from a tax statute into an independent federal gun registration regime, an outcome Congress has never authorized, has repeatedly rejected, and in fact expressly prohibited in the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986. In fact, when Congress reduced the Obamacare penalty to $0 during President Trump’s first term, the Department of Justice refused to defend the underlying flawed law.

The Department is fully empowered to decline to defend statutory provisions that no longer rest on a valid constitutional basis. It has exercised that authority before, and it must do so again here, this time in defense of Americans’ Second Amendment rights. As members of Congress who supported the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and participated in the legislative process surrounding Section 70436 of that act, we wish to reaffirm that it was our intent in enacting Section 70436 to repeal the transfer and registration requirements under the National Firearms Act by eliminating the associated excise taxes for certain firearms.

It remains our clear intent that these transfer and registration requirements shall no longer apply to firearms now subject to a $0 tax for the reasons outlined above. Accordingly, we urge the Department of Justice to adopt the position of the drafters of this provision that the transfer and registration requirements cannot stand without the corresponding excise tax. We further urge the Department to reconsider its recent opposition brief and to ensure that the future filings reflect Congress’ clear directive regarding the National Firearms Taxation Registration linkage. President Trump has been the most pro-Second Amendment president in our nation’s history, and the Department of Justice has an opportunity to uphold his strong record of protecting gun owners from burdensome regulations.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter. We look forward to working with the Department of Justice to advance additional pro-Second Amendment policies. Sincerely, Andrew Clyde, Steve Daines, Lauren Boebert, Bill Cassidy, Wesley Hunt, Tim Sheehy, Scott Perry, Mike Lee, John Rose, John Cornyn, Barry Moore, Rick Allen, Earl Carter, Scott Desjardins, Corey Mills, David Taylor, Adrian Smith, Chip Roy, Sherry Biggs, Barry Loudermilk, Mary Miller, Morgan Griffith, Derek Schmidt, Andy Biggs, Ryan Zink, Ralph Norman, Richard Hudson, Diana Harshbarger, Michael Cloud, Riley Moore, Nicholas Bejic, Mike Harris, Tim Burchitt, Clay Higgins, Randy Weber, Guy Reshentler, Ryan Jack, Marlon Schutzman, Mike Boast, Eric Burleson, Ben Kline, and Jeff Heard.

This was also CC’d to Daniel Driscoll, who is the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. You have now heard in full the position of Congress, signed, dated, and formally delivered to the Department of Justice. This is not ambiguity. This is not implied intent. This is Congress stating outright that the National Firearms Act’s registration and transfer requirements were inseparably tied to taxation, and that once the tax was reduced to zero, the authority to enforce those requirements evaporated with it. If the Department of Justice continues to push forward anyway, it is no longer acting as a neutral enforcer of the law.

It is rewriting the law, something the Founders explicitly forbade. Pam Bondi, Harmeet Dillon, this is your chance to change the way that the Americans in this country, who love the Second Amendment, view you and your efforts, because you have publicly stated that you support the Second Amendment, yet in court, when it comes to a federal firearms restriction, federal gun registration, taxation, or any other federal gun control, you have defended it, in court, while telling us all you are pro-Second Amendment. You cannot be both. Both cannot be true. In Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton warned us, there is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.

And yet here we are, watching executive agencies attempt to do all three. This letter puts the DOJ on notice. It puts the courts on notice. And most importantly, it puts the American people on notice. The Second Amendment was not written to be convenient. It was written to be permanent. As George Mason famously said, to disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them. The question now is simple. Will the Department of Justice follow the Constitution and Congress’s clear intent? Will Pam Bondi do what she is supposed to do the day this was signed into law? Will the DOJ continue to claim to be the most pro-2A DOJ in history without actually being pro-2A when they have a chance here to hit a grand slam? Or will it attempt to preserve power that no longer lawfully exists? That answer will shape the future of the NFA, the federal gun registration, and the limits of agency authority in this country.

Stay vigilant. Stay armed. Stay free. Read our founding documents. And never forget, our rights only survive when we insist that they do. Again, thank you to GOA for doing what you’ve done and getting these members of Congress on board. Thank you to the members of Congress who have put their names and to this official document telling the DOJ to get in line. We’ll see how it plays out. I am Jared. This is Guns N’ Gadgets. I’ll keep you in the loop. All you got to do is subscribe. I’ll see you on the next one.

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