Keep the pressure on y’all. Today we’re talking about something deeply important and deeply dangerous. It’s happening right now in Washington DC. It’s something we’ve discussed over and over and over again as defenders of liberty. It’s about the Constitution, the Second Amendment, and whether or not the federal government led by Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, is still willing to defend unconstitutional gun control. And I’m going to show you exactly why this matters, not just for suppressors or short-barreled rifles, but for the future of the entire Second Amendment. Last week in a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, was pressed repeatedly about why the Justice Department is still defending the National Firearms Act registry requirements even after Congress eliminated the $200 NFA tax on items like suppressors and short-barreled rifles.

And on camera, she shrugged off the question and refused to explain the legal basis for continuing to defend the registry. It’s the same hearing in which when she was pressed about the PDF files in the Epstein case, she responded about, you know, the Dow Jones is over $50,000. Watch this. Last year, President Trump signed the one big beautiful bill into law, which included the Hearing Protection Act, part of it that was sponsored by myself and Congressman Clyde. It reduced the national firearms tax, $200 tax on suppressors and short-barreled firearms, to zero.

And while the tax has been eliminated, the NFA’s registration and paperwork requirements were made in effect. And your DOJ has said that that would, even though the tax was reduced to zero, that the registration requirement is still somehow necessary, even though, with regard to Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act, when that mandate was, when that tax penalty was reduced to zero, you decided that the mandate was no longer necessary. How are you, how are you justifying the existence of this registry? Congressman, that’s pending litigation right now. It is, it is, and I hope we would reconsider, you would reconsider that.

That’s right. The federal government is still defending a gun registry that has no tax penalty attached to it, and that should raise every Second Amendment Patriots eyebrows. Members of Congress, including Representative Clay Higgins and Representative Ben Kline, they were blunt during this meeting. They demanded to know if the tax is gone, what’s the constitutional justification for the registry? And Bondi had no answers. That’s not law, that’s bureaucratic dodgeball. At its root, what we’re talking about here is a federal gun registry, a database of Americans who own certain firearms or firearm accessories.

Many have repeatedly warned, and we’ve covered this extensively here on Guns and Gadgets, that a registry is always the first step towards confiscation. Because once the government knows who has what, they can always use that list against us. The Founders didn’t write the Second Amendment, so some federal bureaucracy could collect names and preferences, and then decide how to control citizens. They enshrined the right to keep and bear arms in part so that we could preserve our liberty and resist tyranny. In 2025, Congress passed legislation, part of the omnibus budget bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to set the NFA tax to zero dollars.

And that wasn’t a minor tweak, it was clear legislative intent to end the tax that was the constitutional justification for the NFA back in 1934. Historically, the Supreme Court upheld the National Firearms Act in Sosinski versus the United States because it was a tax, not an outright ban or an outright registry. And once the tax is zero, Congress’s own logic says that the constitutional basis for the registry disappears, just like in the video I showed you when it was referenced to the Obamacare. The tax is gone, the registry disappears.

And that’s not radical, that’s just constitutional consistency. Yet, the Department of Justice, under the Attorney General, Pambani’s leadership, is still defending those registration requirements in court arguing that the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause justify keeping the registry alive. That’s not just stretching the Constitution, that’s ignoring clear legislative intent. Pambani, a bureaucrat, go figure. If this precedent stands, if the Department of Justice gets away with defending a federal gun registry without a constitutional foundation, it means any registry could become constitutional simply because the bureaucracy says it’s necessary.

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Yet, the Department of Justice also admits in court that they’re in common lawful use and the Second Amendment extends to them. And still, they defend this tyranny by bureaucracy. Now, that’s not constitutional law. That’s their bureaucratic rhetoric. And the Attorney General of the United States holds one of the greatest powers in the federal government to enforce the law, yes, but also to defend the Constitution. When the top law enforcement officer in the end, who’s never actually done any police work, which I never understood that, but she’s an attorney.

But when she defends unconstitutional gun control measures, while still telling states that their gun control laws are unconstitutional, it’s not just bureaucratic quibbling. It’s a direct threat to our liberties guaranteed to us by the founders of this Republic. The Bill of Rights limits the government’s powers, not the people’s. And when the Department of Justice, when they defend federal gun registries without a constitutional anchor, they chip away at the very foundation of liberty. The Second Amendment isn’t about hunting or sport only. It’s a backstop against tyranny. It’s a cue from our founders, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Henry, all of them, that when the government becomes distant like ours, when civil powers grow unchecked like ours here now, the people retain the power to defend their liberty and their homes.

It’s a bulwark, and we don’t get to pick and choose when it matters. Today, it matters, because if the federal government can justify keeping a gun registry alive without a constitutional basis, what’s next? A national list of every lawful citizen who owns anything that the bureaucracy decides is regulated today? That’s exactly how free nations die. Not in war, but the quiet erosion of rights. Guys and gals, we need to stay vigilant. We need to stay informed, and we need to stand ready to support the courageous lawmakers and grassroots advocates who are pushing back.

And we need to stay ready to push back ourselves, because this fight isn’t just about suppressors or rifles. It’s about the future of the Second Amendment and the future of the Republic itself. Do not let the government rewrite our rights by bureaucracy and litigation. Know your Constitution. Know your Bill of Rights. And never, ever let anybody take your liberty without a fight. Thank you for watching. If you learned something today, or if you got charged up, hit that like button, share the video, and subscribe to Guns and Gadgets for more deep dives into the Second Amendment, the Constitution, and how we keep our rights alive.

God bless you. God bless America. Stay armed and stay free. I’ll see you on the next one. Take care. you
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