ATF has announced they won’t be enforcing NFA registration requirements on owners of suppressors and SBRs. The law remains on the books and is still constitutional in most of the nation.
So I ask you this: What happens on January 21, 2029, when the next President takes office? Anyone who has an unregistered SBR or suppressor will be in possession of an unregistered NFA item. The law will still be there, it will now depend on who you are and how badly they want to see you in prison.
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WallPhone · October 11, 2026 at 9:36 am
There’s whiplash from having gone from needing to remove *and destroy* factory arm braces to keep pistols still considered pistols to it no longer matters what you attach to your pistol in one administration change.
MiguelGFZ · October 11, 2026 at 9:38 am
If the winds blow wrong, you are keen and since it costs you nothing, you may want to register online a week or two prior to Jan 20. Or simply do not throw away your braces.
Spare shotgun barrels have suddenly gone up….
Divemedic · October 11, 2026 at 9:54 am
I have said, and continue to say, I am not registering shit. Registration is only good for one thing: Confiscation.
C · October 11, 2026 at 10:47 am
Unfortunately I have to agree. Even if millions of Americans dump their braces and cut barrels. The ATF will just roll up a few hundred at a time at their leisure. Since gun owners will not risk hanging together the ATF will just hang us all separately. There’s plenty of evidence that the courts are not going to save us.
gary gray · October 11, 2026 at 2:42 pm
“…in possession of…”
I always find this sort of thing instantly laughable.
As if anyone else gets to say anything about what I have.
It’s beyond ludicrous.
I’ll call it dementia.
If I some how, some way, became compelled to involve myself in dictating what someone else has, I would expect to taken to the rubber room or kneecapped.
I know someone that has manufactured more then 20 cans for various guns he owns from plans he sourced some where, with materials from any decent hardware store and some basic tools (welder, drill press, bandsaw, etc.)
Divemedic · October 11, 2026 at 4:10 pm
I don’t know anything about anyone.
49%mfer · October 12, 2026 at 8:59 am
Always the correct answer.
Henry · October 11, 2026 at 5:42 pm
Sound advice from DM. ATF hasn’t changed the statutes, only their policy on enforcement. On top of that, many states (including NC, where I live) still require the NFA process regardless of whether the feds will enforce it. Should democrats regain full control of DC I expect their enforcement to be draconian.
TRX · October 12, 2026 at 10:35 am
“We’re the ATF, created by an Act of Congress, and given the task of enforcing various laws passed by Congress. However, we’re refusing to do our jobs as defined by those statutes, and not only that, we’re issuing press releases about it.”
They’re an odious outfit that shouldn’t exist, but they don’t have the option of just not doing their jobs. If someone at the FAA or the SSA doesn’t do their job. they get fired. Theoretically, anyway.
lynn · October 11, 2026 at 10:44 pm
Yeah, I figure that any dumbrocrat or dsa president of the USA will immediately reverse everything that Trump has done. And probably with the help of the RINOs like Thune and Murkowski.
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