WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, a coalition of four leading gun rights organizations comprised of the American Suppressor Association (ASA), Firearms Policy Coalition, National Rifle Association (NRA), and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), announced the filing of Brown v. ATF a joint federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of Missouri challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act (NFA). In 1937, the Supreme Court ruled that the NFA was primarily a revenue-generating measure and the registration requirements of the statute served to verify who had paid the required tax. With the tax rate of $0 as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the constitutionality of requiring suppressor owners to register with the federal government is no longer valid. This litigation joins Anderson v. Raoul, and Padua v. Platkin, the ASA Foundation and Silencer Shop—backed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the ban on suppressors in Illinois and New Jersey, at the forefront of pro-suppressor litigation.
