Look, I'll be honest with you — most of what the Trump administration has done on gun rights has been solid. Executive orders, judicial appointments, the whole nine yards. I'd say he's been the most pro-gun president I've seen in my lifetime.
But here's where they're blowing it.
Congress already removed the tax stamp on suppressors and short-barreled rifles in the Big Beautiful Bill. That was huge news for us. The whole justification for NFA regulations on these items was that they were a 'tax' — a tax to fund enforcement, paperwork to prove you paid, nothing more. Take away the tax, and logically, the rest of the apparatus should fall with it.
Except the ATF isn't getting that memo.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach gets it. He's leading a coalition of red states suing the Trump DOJ, demanding they stop defending these unconstitutional regulations. His argument is spot-on: without the tax, there's no legal foundation for making us fill out Form 4s and wait six months to buy a can that makes plinking at the range easier on our ears.
The DOJ should be standing in that courtroom saying 'yeah, they're right' — not fighting to keep your rights restricted.
I voted for the guy. Things would be worse under Harris, no question. But is it too much to ask for actual consistency on Second Amendment issues when Congress has already acted?
Suppressors aren't machine guns. They're hearing protection. The legal framework that keeps them locked up is crumbling, and our own government is trying to prop it up. That's the problem.