As you surely recall, one of the features of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill that’s near and dear to the hearts of gun owners is the elimination of the $200 tax on suppressors, short-barrel rifles and short-barrel shotguns. No longer will you have to fork over a couple of Benjamins for the privilege of buying a can for your AR or pistol caliber carbine. And if you decide an 11-inch barrel suits your need in a rifle better than one that’s 16 inches or more (18+ inches for shotguns), you won’t have to send Uncle Sam any of your hard-earned dollars.
This welcome change will take effect on January 1.
That means, however, some system tweaks are needed for our friends in ATF’s NFA Division. To make the necessary upgrades to handle the law change, they’re going to shut the eForms system down for Form 1 and Form 4 submissions after Christmas to let their geeks get to work.
From ATF . . .
On December 26, the eForms system will be temporarily unavailable while we upgrade the system to permit reduction to tax rates for certain NFA firearms.
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- The ATF eForm 1 and ATF eForm 4 will be made unavailable on the eForms platform with no new electronic submissions available until January 1.
- All ATF eForm 1 and ATF eForm 4 applications in a DRAFT status will be deleted from the eForms system.
All completed ATF eForm 1 and ATF eForm 4 applications submitted within eForms before December 26 will be processed before January 1.
This is necessary to implement statutory changes contained within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which reduced the making and transfer tax for certain firearms to $0. Deletion of all DRAFT applications is necessary because of the field and formatting changes required on the new forms, available January 1. This will also allow ATF to add additional functionality to the Form 4, allowing both qualified licensees as well as other transferors to submit Form 4 applications through the eForms system.
If you’ve ever been through a system change or upgrade, you know that the process seldom goes to plan. Let’s hope ATF has its digital ducks in a row. As noted above, any eForm applications in draft status when the system goes down will be zapped, so act accordingly.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sweet. How long until SBR/SBS registration is ruled unconstitutional? Won’t they be able to continue registering suppressors since they’re accessories and not firearms?
SCOTUS Declines Challenge To SBR Law
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It isn’t happening anytime soon?
Don’t even have AR15 and standard mags in all states so maybe have some more bricks to lay.
“SCOTUS Declines Challenge To SBR Law”
I have a feeling we won’t be seeing any more than one 2A case, per SCotUS session.
They granted cert. for a marijuana case this term, it will be interesting to see if Trump, who just altered it’s schedule to a lower one, may impact how they rule.
LKB, any ideas on that possibility?
“Sweet. How long until SBR/SBS registration is ruled unconstitutional?”
The justification for the registry was that it ensured payment of the tax.
With the tax about to be *zero*, there’s no constitutional justification for the ATF registry, so it’s high time we attacked the registry on those grounds.
Since the rest of the world no longer bothers to treat silencers and SBRs any differently than any other firearm, let’s get those lawsuits flying!
“Sweet. How long until SBR/SBS registration is ruled unconstitutional?”
Lawsuits are now being crafted to do just that, since the legal justification for the registry was insurance the tax was paid….
Cr@zy Idea: take all the money Biden would have spent going after innocent gun owners, spend it on some new computers, and install any required new software and forms on them without any more down-time than it takes to flip a switch from one system to the other in the middle of the night on 31 Jan.
Only problem with that is it has to be compatible with all the other gov systems. Upgrading just a small company is abitch. The whole gov would be a nightmare.
“take all the money Biden would have spent going after innocent gun owners, spend it on some new computers, and install any required new software and forms on them without any more down-time than it takes to flip a switch from one system to the other in the middle of the night on 31 Jan.”
Look, E-File dropped approval times from one year to just a few weeks currently, chill the fuck out…
Just lost a reasonable and respectful comment to m0deration. Let’s try again:
This work needs to be done in 2025.
2025 funding was approved in 2024, when the previous admin was going after us.
How about we take money budgeted for that, spend it on new computers, and install the updates on them while the old machines remain online until the end of the year?
Money allocated for the 2025 fiscal year was approved in 2024 and became effective 1 October 2024 for fiscal year 2025 but ended midnight on 30 Sept 2025. The government is in fiscal year 2026 now (began on 1 Oct 2025). So the money for fiscal 2025, anything not spent, was pulled back. Thus the new allocation approval for fiscal year 2026 began on 1 Oct 2025, so the money now is in the 2026 budget allocation. For money, the federal government operates on fiscal years and not calendar year, the fiscal year runs from October 1 of one calendar year through September 30 of the next calendar year.
The most effective way to get folks into shooting is this new law.
I personally rented a can for a new shooter. With the correct ammo his first shot put a huge smile on his face. He was totally shocked at just how quiet it actually was.
Yes I don’t like having to fill out the paperwork. But I had to do that also just to buy a gun.
An AR 15 in 22LR with a can, and a “go faster trigger”. That is going to be really fun!!!
Who cares about saving a few bucks as a “win”. That was never the main concern to begin with. Wake me up when this entire unconstitutional BGC and registration mechanism is knocked out entirely.
” Wake me up when this entire unconstitutional BGC and registration mechanism is knocked out entirely.”
We now have the tools to do just that with the registry. They have to wind through the courts…
Or in other words the ATF folks don’t know how to click the check box they already have that says ‘no tax’ and need time to figure out how to do that.