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Second Amendment Roundup: $0 Tax Left NFA with No Constitutional Basis

Northern District of Texas decides that registration requirements for non-taxed NFA firearms are no longer grounded in Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes.

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A Federal Judge Rejects National Firearms Act Regulations, Saying Their Tax Rationale No Longer Applies

When Congress eliminated taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, it also eliminated the constitutional justification for regulating them.

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First eight grooming gang cases sent back to police for reinvestigation

Operation Beaconport is reviewing cases from January 2010 to March 2025

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There Are 4.1 Million Guns In Australia. So Are Our Gun Laws As Strict As We Thought?

The Bondi attack has raised a confronting question: are our gun laws as strict as we thought they were? What needs to change to actually keep people safe?

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Second Amendment Roundup: The U.S. Defends NFA Restrictions Lacking a Tax Nexus

The DOJ claims basis in the tax power and the commerce clause, and no Second Amendment problem.

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This Gun Case Harks Back to Constitutional Concerns About the Limits of Federal Power That Now Seem Quaint

Congress justified that National Firearms Act of 1934 as a revenue measure—a rationale undermined by the repeal of taxes on suppressors and short-barreled rifles.

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'Human errors' led to grooming gang cases being dropped, review finds amid huge NCA investigation

Thousands of cases of rape and sexual assault are being reviewed as part of the National Crime Agency’s Operation Beaconport

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Grooming gang investigations dropped due to ‘human error’, early review suggests

Initial inquiries by a national taskforce suggest available lines of inquiry were not pursued in some sex abuse gang cases.

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Grooming gang investigations dropped by police because of ‘potentially human error’

Thousands of investigations that ended without a conviction will be reviewed as part of Operation Beaconport

The Independent UK

Early review finds mistakes in grooming gang investigations

Thousands of cases are set to be assessed as part of Operation Beaconport

The Independent UK

Inside the gun absolutists’ bold plot to repeal one of America’s strongest firearms laws

Gun Owners of America, which sees the NRA as soft, has the National Firearms Act in its sights – and it’s ready for battle

The Guardian - US

Second Amendment Roundup: The Zero Tax on NFA Firearms

The $0 tax on firearms undercuts the constitutional basis of the National Firearms Act.

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A Year On, Ugandans Still Suffering From Deadly Garbage Collapse

When the giant landfill collapsed in Uganda's capital Kampala a year ago, Zamhall Nansamba thought she was hearing an aeroplane taking off.

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Gun Rights Groups Sue To Overturn Federal Weapons Registration

The case argues that, since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated taxes on the transfer of certain weapons, the constitutional basis for registering those weapons no longer exists.

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Gun Rights Groups Welcome the Demise of Illogical and Constitutionally Dubious Federal Firearm Taxes

The taxes on sound suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, originally enacted in 1934, were meant to be prohibitive, imposing bans in the guise of raising revenue.

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Nearly a quarter of foster places in England provided by private equity-backed firms

Experts raise alarm over ‘commodification’ of vulnerable children as independent fostering agencies make millions in profit

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Second Amendment Roundup: U.S. Files Amicus Brief in Illinois Rifle Ban Challenge

Brief argues that no “militaristic” arm exception exists.

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Second Amendment Roundup: Removing Silencers from the NFA

The NFA is a revenue measure and deleting silencers would not violate the Byrd Rule.

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Second Amendment Roundup: National Firearms Act Constitutional Issues

Wyoming Law Review publishes special issue on the NFA.

The Independent UK

FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts

The National Fire Academy, the country's preeminent federal fire training academy, has canceled classes effective immediately amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President Donald Trump’s administration

The Independent UK

Police drop investigation into Black professor who called ex-GB News host Calvin Robinson a ‘house N***o’

Exclusive: The investigation followed a string of cases where Black and Asian people have faced prosecution for hate crimes after using specific language to criticise other people from ethnic minority communities

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Call for Papers: National Firearms Act Symposium

Date: Friday, October 18, 2024 Location: Laramie, Wyoming Abstracts Due: July 29, 2024 Manuscripts Due: August 29, 2024 The Wyoming Law Review and the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center announce a call for papers for a Symposium this fall on the National Firearms Act (NFA). Papers may address any…

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