Latest / Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights / What's Next For the NFA
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- 0:15Well, welcome to the live Shoot podcast.
- 0:16My name is Jeff Doddle.
- 0:17I've been a licensed farm dealer for the last 18 years in this podcast to talk about all things related, the amendment as well as anything else.
- 0:24Going on in the world, a sports story or anything else I might find interesting.
- 0:28So welcome, welcome all.
- 0:29Yes.
- 0:29This is podcast where we talk all things about the Second Amendment and God, our, our, our liberty and our freedoms associated with it.
- 0:37So I welcome you and I appreciate you listening.
- 0:39So one to.
- 0:41Touch base with you and find talked about now, what is next after the big beautiful bill and to catch y'all up if you haven't been following the, the story.
- 0:50The big beautiful bill, the budget reconciliation bill that just got signed by President Trump last week and has been in the news for several months now.
- 0:58In terms of, of what are we gonna do to reconcile our current, our budget has involved the second Amendment, our national Firearms Act suppressors, short barrel rifles, and it's kind of gone back and forth as things have evolved.
- 1:12So it originally started out in the, in the house.
- 1:16And in the house they put in some language that basically pulled.
- 1:21Silencers suppressors from from the National Firearms Act, it would negate the$200 tax.
- 1:29And since you're not paying a tax and the that would then negate any of the registration, fingerprints photos and registration associated with it.
- 1:40And to step back even further, the National Firearms Act, which regulates.
- 1:46Things that they deem to be.
- 1:49Even more dangerous fully auto full out rifles suppressors, short barrel rifles, short barrel shotguns primarily and some, any other weapon type things that get that, get in there.
- 2:00And what it did is sent the gun grabbers.
- 2:04Didn't, couldn't get it passed to ban these because they would violate the second Amendment.
- 2:09They decided to tax them.
- 2:12And this goes back 1936, I guess maybe 34 of'em.
- 2:15I'd have to pull it up, I can't remember.
- 2:18And what they did is they said, we're just gonna tax it.
- 2:20We're gonna put a tax on it.
- 2:21And that tax was$200.
- 2:23And at the time, that was, that tax hasn't changed.
- 2:25So it was$200 in the.
- 2:27Thirties and it's$200 today.
- 2:30So you can imagine how expensive that$200 was back in, in the thirties and forties as compared today.
- 2:38It's still is a significant amount when you apply it to a suppressor.
- 2:44It sometimes it can almost double the cost at times.
- 2:47But anyway, they decided to tax it and so to do that they.
- 2:51The National Farms Act is part of the IRS code, and they put in certain rules and regulations around how that tax would be collected and tracked.
- 3:00And that means registering the firearm, getting photos, fingerprints of the people paying the tax and registering the firearm.
- 3:07And in the house when they submitted the, the ability to, to remove the tax.
- 3:13They also submit the ability to track the paying of the tax.
- 3:18Go over to the Senate.
- 3:19The Senate puts language in and they even go a step further and they put in the language to cover short belt rifles and short belt shotguns.
- 3:28The the house at the time didn't feel that they would be able to get that approved.
- 3:33The Senate puts it in, it goes to what we all came to find out about the Senate parliamentarian and that she is just a government employee not elected that reviews what the Senate is proposing and its legislation and decides whether or not they can actually do it.
- 3:49A lot of debate around this position, this person.
- 3:52The amount of power she has and I it is a, it is a she.
- 3:55I'm using the, the correct pronoun, not just in general and she said that you could remove the tax because this, it, it was a budgetary tax item, which is what the reconciliation Bill Ki covered.
- 4:09But you could not remove the registration requirements.
- 4:14So it gets approved by the Senate.
- 4:15And then since it all changed, it had to go back to the house.
- 4:18And the final bill that got approved by the house and signed by the president, is that the.
- 4:23200 tax has been removed, but for short rail rifles, shotguns, and suppressors full auto and any other weapons still pertain.
- 4:32But you're not gonna pay the 200 tax, but you are gonna have to go ahead and still get it registered.
- 4:36Fingerprinted, passport photos submitted for the approval process and such, and that was signed off.
- 4:42So first question is, is.
- 4:44When, when's this gonna go into effect?
- 4:46And by all accounts the language in the, in the law and what the A TF is saying, it is going to go into effect January 1st, 2027.
- 4:57So we are talking you know, five more months or six months I guess.
- 5:03And then you will not be able to pay, you won't have to pay a tax to purchase a suppressor or short or short rail rifle.
- 5:11So.
- 5:12That's a good thing.
- 5:12We are celebrating that we're gonna take victories that we can get and continue the fight on.
- 5:17From my point of view, one thing I, and I am sure the manufacturers and retailers out there that make their living selling these things are not gonna sell many silencers or short barrel rifles between now and January one.
- 5:31Why would you sell buy one now when you don't and, and pay the tax when in six months you're not gonna have to pay the tax.
- 5:38So I see that those sales dropping off significantly.
- 5:41And I'm hoping that places like Sounder Shop and all those places that, that rely on those types of things get get it approved or, or, you know, get through this, this period.
- 5:51I.
- 5:52I make a little money doing transfers.
- 5:54I just renewed my SOT That's not cheap.
- 5:56It's$500 a year to be, to be able to do NFA items.
- 6:01And so you know that that will hurt a little bit for me.
- 6:05But, you know, I don't pay my bills based on the income I make doing transfers on, on silencers.
- 6:12So, but, now with all that being said, now lawsuits are, are flying about as well, and the places like Palm Metal, state Armory, silencer Shop NRA gun Owners of America Second Amendment Foundation, have all stepped up and said, Hey, wait a minute.
- 6:29You can't take away the tax and keep, keep a tax law without a tax, without a tax being collected.
- 6:35There is no reason for the law.
- 6:37So they are suing to the extent that says, Hey, yeah, you are not gonna collect the tax.
- 6:42But now you, you know, this makes no sense.
- 6:45Why are we still tracking this in, in tax law and requiring the registration?
- 6:51And, and such.
- 6:52So that's all happening now.
- 6:54I don't know how long that's gonna take to, to sort out in the courts.
- 6:58Ideally that would get through pretty quick because it seems like it's pretty straightforward.
- 7:02But it does feel like one of those things that's gonna go all the way up to the Supreme Court.
- 7:07But we will see, we, you'll see how how aggressive the, a TF The Department of Justice wants to defend this law, I guess, or maybe the IRS, maybe you're suing the IRS, I don't know, actually don't know who, who, who's gonna be this.
- 7:21That's all to be sorted out.
- 7:23So those are things that have been going on and we're gonna keep an eye on it.
- 7:27Good news, that all is good news.
- 7:29You know, little bits of victories for the Second Amendment along the way.
- 7:32But, so we'll keep you up to date as to what's happening, but you know, hey, start, you know, saving your money, you know?
- 7:39And if you haven't ever bought suppressor go ahead and, and if you wanna do it under a, a, a trust, you know, start getting that paperwork and all that ready.
- 7:47So come January one, you know, you can even, you know, you know, start ordering suppressors.
- 7:52I imagine places like silencer shop and all those are gonna start running some pretty good sales on'em to get you to buy'em now and maybe hold off on.
- 8:02Transferring it and getting it made, registered until the tax is is available.
- 8:07You can, you know, if you wanna use me, you can ship it to me.
- 8:10I'll hold it till it's time to register it so you can buy it now, ship it to me and I will hold off on doing the transfer for you till it's, till it's time to, to avoid the tax.
- 8:20And I'm sure there's others out there that'll be as it's accommodating.
- 8:23So keep that in mind and appreciate it.
- 8:27Take care.
- 8:28Have a good week, and I am going to be celebrating my wife's birthday this week, this weekend.
- 8:34So that is going on in my life.
- 8:35And in the past I have talked about Bitcoin, about the, the, what I believe the future is in terms of Bitcoin and, and having a solid asset that that cannot be, they based and it's true money.
- 8:50And if you have not watched over the last few days, what's happening to it should go look at its prices.
- 8:54It's, it is, it is starting to move.
- 8:57And I think some of the predictions of a$250,000 Bitcoin by into the.
- 9:02Year or maybe by within a year could be happening.
- 9:06But, you know, that is another topic.
- 9:08And maybe when I don't have something else to talk about, we'll have another podcast on Bitcoin we will see.
- 9:13But maybe we'll go back and, and do a, just an intro class to it for those that haven't listened before.
- 9:19Just to, get it back on the, because again, I think it's something that's gonna be central to, to any portfolio that you have, but I am not giving out financial advice.
- 9:29So take care.
- 9:31Have a great weekend and I will talk to you later.