Removal of Silencers from NFA?

[eddiememphis]

https://www.silencershop.com/blog/he...ate-compromise
https://www.nationalguntrusts.com/bl...ce=chatgpt.com

(d) EFFECTIVE DATE. The amendments made by this section shall apply to calendar quarters beginning more than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

That means that 90 days after the end of the current quarter will be January 1, 2026 and the most likely date that this change will go into effect. That also aligns with the Federal Register publishing that takes place quarterly. Once the OBBB is published in the Federal Register (Q3 of 2025), 90 days will need to take place until the tax stamps for suppressors and short-barrel rifles will go to $0, which works out to be January 1, 2026.

[bellavite1]

21 hrs on my last from certification to approval...

[TEAMRICO]

Form 1 SBR 8 days.
Got the email today!

I don’t want to get caught up in the upcoming possible backlog next year.

[Eric P]

Surprised no one else covered this yet.

With the passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill" and the elimination of the $200 tax stamp fee, it looks like the NRA and a couple of other pro-2A groups have filed a lawsuit against the ATF regarding the continuance of the NFA program. If they eliminate NFA, won't this then make things currently classified as "NFA items" illegal in CO and many other states?

https://www.nraila.org/articles/2025...ce-nfa-lawsuit

That was my original point when I started this thread. The stamp is a permit to own. These lawsuit are idealistic, but they don't see the elimination of rights in many states if the "permit to own" stamps are ended.

[FoxtArt]

Surprised no one else covered this yet.

With the passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill" and the elimination of the $200 tax stamp fee, it looks like the NRA and a couple of other pro-2A groups have filed a lawsuit against the ATF regarding the continuance of the NFA program. If they eliminate NFA, won't this then make things currently classified as "NFA items" illegal in CO and many other states?

https://www.nraila.org/articles/2025...ce-nfa-lawsuit

Absolutely***** (ETA here I initially read the prior post as "legal")

It will make all NFA permanently illegal in Colorado because you will lose the affirmative defense. Everyone needs to do this homework assignment and read the one paragraph of Colorado law. https://cbi.colorado.gov/sites/cbi/f...018-12-102.pdf

Trumps Big Borrowing Bill, coupled with a successful NRA lawsuit, would purge the ability to own any NFA in Colorado.

That said, there is about 0% chance of the NRA suit succeeding. Why? We have a judge-icial system, not a system of laws. Even the conservative judges we have don't want "insert whatever youthful hoodlum they personally despise" getting access to a legal fully-auto M16 for $600, with another $250 for a suppressor. You'd need 5 Clarence Thomas' on the bench for that to succeed, and we don't have it. 0% chance of success in any circuit appeal and the Supreme Court.

Unfortunately we live in a system where if they find the law unacceptable as written, they conform it to where they want the lines to be. Instead of, treating laws as they are written, and giving it to the legislative to fix any deficiencies, unintended consequences, etc. if necessary and with support of the constituency.