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Some long-standing federal restrictions on certain firearms and silencers are no longer in effect in Texas and several other states.
Congress used its taxing power to enact the National Firearms Act in 1934. Last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill ended the tax for short-barrel shotguns, short-barrel rifles and silencers.
A federal judge ruled last week that the revocation of the tax put an end to gun regulations enacted under congressional taxing authority. Texas and 14 other states had sued to overturn the regulations.
