Oh, it’s happening. And not quietly either.
President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is causing a full-blown constitutional standoff, and if you’re not paying attention yet — buckle up. Gun rights are on the table. And not in the usual, performative, empty-resolution-on-a-Thursday sort of way. We’re talking about nuking the National Firearms Act — the crown jewel of federal gun control — right down to its bureaucratic bones.
One Big Beautiful Bill’s Passage Prompts ‘Big Beautiful Lawsuit’ Over NFAhttps://t.co/0ctRAcevHU
— Bearing Arms (@BearingArmsCom) July 7, 2025
Here’s what just went down: Trump’s massive 887-page bill didn’t just tweak around the edges of the NFA. It went straight for the jugular. The federal tax on firearm silencers, short-barreled rifles, and shotguns? Axed. Gone. As if it were just a typo in a bloated stack of government overreach.
President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill ends the unconstitutional regulation of Short-Barreled Rifles and suppressors.
The Second Amendment shall not be infringed. pic.twitter.com/iP9W1vyn0n
— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) June 25, 2025
And the gun rights crowd? They’re not popping champagne — yet. Because this isn’t over. Not even close. They’re sharpening their legal knives, dragging the whole thing to court. Why? Because, as Erich Pratt from Gun Owners of America put it, now that the tax is toast, the rest of the NFA is just standing there like a house of cards with no table underneath. If this plays out the way they think it will, the entire federal registry might not just be weakened — it could vanish.
You’d think that kind of tectonic shift in federal law would dominate the headlines. But nope — too busy pearl-clutching over the next Trump gaffe or obsessing about what pronouns someone used in a Senate hearing.
Meanwhile, back in Texas, where this legal grenade is being lobbed, the judge presiding over it all? Trump-appointed. Make of that what you will.
But don’t get too comfortable. Just as this challenge to federal gun control laws starts to heat up, over in another courtroom, a different judge — this time an Obama appointee — blocked a push to strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding. On a temporary basis, mind you. But the timing couldn’t be more telling. Two rulings, two philosophies, two Americas — and neither side seems interested in blinking.
Senator Mike Lee called out the Planned Parenthood ruling with surgical precision, suggesting it wasn’t just a mistake — it was a “judicial usurpation of legislative power.” Translation: unelected judges rewriting the law because they don’t like what the people’s representatives did. Sound familiar?
Now the whispers are turning into roars. Some are even tossing around the word impeachment — not of a president this time, but of a federal judge. That’s not something you hear every week. Or every decade.
This is about more than gun rights or federal funding. It’s about who gets to decide what laws we live under. Congress? The President? Or a lifetime-appointed judge with a pen and a robe?
And here’s the kicker: the hearing for Trump’s gun law showdown is scheduled for July 21. Quietly, methodically, the stage is being set. The court could either reinforce the right to bear arms in a way not seen in nearly a century — or hand it all right back to unelected bureaucrats.
What happens when a court is forced to decide between the Constitution and 90 years of gun control orthodoxy?
WATCH: @Johnny_Joey blasts the “useless” National Firearms Act for not making us safer and he highlights how the One Big Beautiful Bill is a major win for the Second Amendment:
“It also repealed a $200 tax stamp on NFA weapons, which are basically suppressors short barreled… pic.twitter.com/6Zv522ormF
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 5, 2025
You might want to mark your calendar. Because what’s coming next… could make Bruen look like a warm-up.
