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The Department of Justice did not seek an extension before the deadline, so the injunction against NFA registration requirements is now technically active for the parties it covers. A lot of people are celebrating right now, and we get it — we're glad this is moving in the right direction. We've said all along we're fully behind less red tape for you, even when it means less paperwork we get paid to file.
But here's the part a lot of the excitement is skipping over: this doesn't change anything for North Dakota. We're not happy about that either.
North Dakota's own state law separately references the NFA process directly — so even though the federal injunction is now active for the parties it covers, that doesn't erase a requirement written into our own state's statute. A federal court can weaken federal enforcement; it can't rewrite North Dakota law.
Here's the part that trips a lot of people up: North Dakota is actually one of the 15 states that joined this lawsuit and technically won something. But that protection covers state government agencies — not individual buyers like you. Those are two separate things, and it's an easy mix-up given how the news is being reported.
Bottom line: if you're buying in North Dakota, from us or anywhere else, the standard process still applies. Anyone telling you otherwise for an ND purchase isn't giving you accurate information.
Even outside North Dakota, there's a real legal distinction between suppressors and SBRs/SBSs that a lot of the online chatter is glossing over. A separate law — the Gun Control Act, specifically 18 U.S.C. § 922(b)(4) — independently requires a dealer to have an approved Form 4 before transferring an SBR or SBS. Machine guns and destructive devices are also on that list. Suppressors are not.
That GCA provision was never part of this lawsuit and wasn't touched by the ruling at all. It's a different law, doing a different job. That means even a fully covered, injunction-protected buyer can potentially get a suppressor without a Form 4 — but a dealer transferring an SBR or SBS to that same buyer still needs an approved Form 4, because a completely separate statute requires it.
Practical translation: this page's SBR catalog still goes through Form 4, for everyone, everywhere — not because of anything specific to North Dakota, but because a different, un-enjoined federal law requires it directly.
A federal judge in Texas ruled that because Congress already dropped the NFA tax stamp to $0 (effective January 1, 2026), the registration requirement built on top of that tax no longer has a valid constitutional basis. The case — one of several brought by a coalition of gun-rights organizations — argued that the NFA's registration scheme was only ever justified as a tax law, and a $0 tax can't support it anymore.
The court agreed, ruling narrowly on that tax-power argument specifically, without addressing the separate Second Amendment question.
We're seeing some dealers already advertising "no Form 4, no registry, no wait" as if this applies to everyone. It doesn't — at least not yet, and not for most buyers. We're not going to market it that way, because getting this wrong carries real consequences.
Still true today: an NFA violation still carries up to 10 years in prison, a $10,000 fine, and forfeiture of the firearm. A felony conviction means a lifetime firearms ban. This ruling is under appeal and could be reversed — the ATF has no mechanism to retroactively register an item if that happens.
To be clear about where we stand: we're pro-Second Amendment, and we support anything that makes it easier for our customers to exercise that right — even when it means less paperwork for us to file. This isn't about what's good for our bottom line — it's about what's good for you.
47 members of Congress have already publicly pushed for this to apply nationwide. That pressure isn't going away. If this holds up through appeal and eventually widens in scope, it would be one of the biggest changes to suppressor and SBR ownership since the NFA was written in 1934. We'll be watching it closely, and we'll update this page the moment anything real changes.
It's entirely possible North Dakota lawmakers take this up when they convene for a special session in Bismarck, September 2–4. Nothing on the current bill list addresses it yet, but we're pushing them to look at it — and we'll let you know the moment that changes.
Unless you have a specific reason to believe you fall inside the narrow scope of this ruling, we're continuing to process every transfer the same way we always have — Form 4, fingerprinting, ATF approval. The tax is already $0 regardless of any of this, and right now approvals are coming back in under a week.
Don't take on legal risk chasing something this early and this narrow. File it right, and you'll have it just as fast.