GOA Members and Supporters must vote this November to secure the Second Amendment…

The recent victory against key provisions of the National Firearms Act (NFA) did not happen in a vacuum.

In 2025, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and cut NFA taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and certain other NFA items to zero.

It was the first real crack in a 92-year registration scheme and created the legal opening for Gun Owners of America to challenge the federal government’s continued enforcement of the NFA registration system.

We argued that once Congress killed the tax, Washington could no longer hide NFA registration behind the taxing power.

On August 5, 2026, a federal court agreed. The court held that key NFA registration provisions are unconstitutional as applied to those untaxed firearms and permanently blocked their enforcement against the plaintiffs, including current and future members of GOA.

This historic result reflects the combined effect of legislation signed by President Trump, GOA’s legal action, and the steadfast support of GOA members across the country.

Gun owners urged the President to go a step further.

On September 4, 2026, he granted full pardons to gun owners who had been crushed under NFA prosecutions:

Patrick “Tate” Adamiak, a Navy sailor hit with a 20-year sentence after an ATF case built around collectible and inoperable items treated as machine guns and destructive devices.

George Peterson, a Louisiana FFL sentenced to two years for an unregistered suppressor later described by advocates as non-functional.

Shane Cox and Jeremy Kettler, Kansans prosecuted after Cox made and sold suppressors inside Kansas and Kettler—an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran—bought one, relying on Kansas’s Second Amendment Protection Act.

Those were miscarriages of justice, and the President treated them that way.

Now gun owners must do our part.

None of the wins we have achieved hold if we stay home in November for the midterm election.

GUN OWNERS MUST VOTE!

Voting gun owners—and that should be ALL voting age gun owners—must show up and vote pro-Second Amendment up and down the ballot.

That is especially true in Texas.

Ken Paxton is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate and is being outspent by a candidate who voted against Texas constitutional carry, against making Texas a Second Amendment sanctuary, and against exempting Texas-made suppressors from federal NFA rules—and who has backed an “assault weapon” ban, a large-capacity magazine ban, universal background checks, and red-flag laws.

But the race is tight.

If gun owners stay home, Washington will treat the NFA victory as a one-off instead of the start of a rollback.

If we turn out, we will send more allies to the Senate and House who will defend what Trump signed, what GOA won in court, and what those pardons made plain: law-abiding gun owners are not criminals.

And don’t just take my word for it, just listen to JD Vance’s remarks, presented by our friend Braden Langley, here.

So this November, let’s build on our wins and not allow the anti-gunners to roll back the clock.

Get out and vote. In Texas, that means Ken Paxton.

Everywhere else, it means pro-gun candidates who will protect the Second Amendment instead of rebuilding the NFA by another name. 

GOA will keep working Congress, the courts, and the executive branch. We will also keep telling members exactly what elected officials and candidates do—and do not do—for the Second Amendment.