Short article, but it covers a case that touches everyone who's ever sat in suppressor jail waiting on a Form 4.

"Congress eliminating the tax doesn't moot this case. The non-tax regulations — registration, the approval process, the wait — are still fully enforced. Zeroing the stamp price is the easy part. The paperwork and federal permission structure is what SAF is actually fighting."

This is the part people are getting confused about at the counter. The $200 going away is nice, but you're still filling out the same stack of forms and waiting however many months for the government to decide you're allowed to have a tube of baffles. The real fight is the permission structure itself.

"A ruling on either question would have consequences well beyond suppressors — it would set the standard for how courts evaluate every other NFA-regulated item."

That's the sentence that should get your attention. Short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, machine guns — all of it runs through the same NFA framework. How SCOTUS frames the Bruen historical tradition test here could ripple into every other item on that regulated list.

If you own a suppressor or have one on order, how long was your wait — and has the Form 4 processing time changed at all since the tax went to zero?

Read the full article in The Handbook → | By Steve Duskett