West Virginia Effort To Deregulate Machine Gun Purchases Spreads To Nearby Kentucky

[Hawg]

A measure that would make it legal to purchase new machine guns in West Virginia is making its way through the legislature and also catching the interest of some other states.
In May 1986, the purchase of new machine guns was banned by the federal government. But, within the ban, there is an exception. States, and those who are “under their authority,” may possess machine guns according to federal law.

According to a national alert from Gun Owners of America (GOA), while a transfer of a machine gun from a dealer or a fellow citizen might be prohibited, an exception exists for states to transfer machine guns to individuals. And the best part? The federal government agrees.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/west-virginia-machine-gun-sales-bill/

[SOCOM42]

In this scabholed state, you can possess a MG, have had them for over 50 years.
The fun part is that you are banned from having over 10 rounds in anything, including belts from what I understand.
The thing is that all my mag's and belts are pre any-ban.
Don't no matter, can't afford to shoot them anyways.

With the 2 meg limit on pictures, it looks like none of mine will fit on this sight.

[red442joe]

All well and good, getting anything out of the shithole that is NFA.
I just can't for the life of me, understand why there doesn't seem to be as much movement on suppressors.

I just want to make my own,
Have my dog safe from the BATFEces fucks,
And be left the hell alone.

Joe

[StratBastard]

Texas federal judge strikes down ATF rules for short-barreled rifles and silencers



A federal judge in Texas ruled last Wednesday that the federal government can no longer enforce specific registration and background check rules for short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers, and certain other items under the National Firearms Act (NFA).

U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix ruled that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) lost its legal authority to enforce those requirements after Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025. That law officially lowered the federal transfer and making taxes on those specific items from $200 down to $0, effective January 1, 2026.

When Congress created the NFA in 1934, it did so using its constitutional power to collect taxes. Judge Hendrix explained in his 66-page opinion that because the government no longer collects any tax money on these specific firearms, the regulations created to protect that tax revenue are no longer constitutional.

“By zeroing out the transfer and making taxes for most NFA firearms, Congress eliminated the constitutional basis for the regulations that formerly supported the taxes for those firearms,” Hendrix wrote. “No longer can the challenged NFA provisions be justified—as they have been for nearly 90 years—under Congress’s taxing power.”

The Department of Justice argued that the regulations should remain in place under Congress’s authority to regulate interstate commerce. However, the court rejected that argument, stating that Congress wrote the NFA strictly as a tax law and never invoked its commerce powers when drafting it.

“Congress passed the NFA under its taxing power only,” Hendrix noted. “Efforts to render the NFA constitutional must come from Congress, not this Court.”

The lawsuit was brought by a coalition of individual gun owners, firearms retailers, advocacy groups like the Silencer Shop Foundation and Gun Owners of America, and 15 state governments, including Texas.

Because the court ruled that Congress exceeded its constitutional authority, Judge Hendrix did not rule on the plaintiffs’ additional claims regarding the Second Amendment.

The permanent injunction issued by the court applies directly to the parties involved in the lawsuit, including member organizations, state agencies, and customers buying directly from the named retail businesses. The judge declined to strike down the law nationwide, noting that federal courts must limit their remedies to the specific parties involved in the case.

The ruling does not affect fully automatic machine guns or destructive devices, which are still subject to the $200 federal tax and registration requirements. It also does not change the annual occupational taxes paid by commercial gun manufacturers and dealers.

Judge Hendrix stayed the decision for seven days from the August 5, 2026 ruling to give the federal government time to file an appeal.

[1skrewsloose]

I think all these gun control laws have gone waaay to far, do we have speech control laws? They are both in the Consittution. I've said before that if they can't ban guns, then they will make spitting on the sidewalk a felony. I smile a bit, when I hear someone, the news , say "convicted felon", is there such a thing as un-convicted felon. Isn't that redundant!!?? Either you are or you're not. Sounds more evil. "Convicted" Kinda of like "Accused" They paint you guity from the get go.

[Texas PO]

I think all these gun control laws have gone waaay to far, do we have speech control laws? They are both in the Consittution. I've said before that if they can't ban guns, then they will make spitting on the sidewalk a felony. I smile a bit, when I hear someone, the news , say "convicted felon", is there such a thing as un-convicted felon. Isn't that redundant!!?? Either you are or you're not. Sounds more evil. "Convicted" Kinda of like "Accused" They paint you guity from the get go.

That's the plan. They keep nibbling away at your rights and your freedoms till one day you find you have neither. And don't look now, but we are starting to see speech control laws, granted, not as bad as Europe, but they working on it. The socialists are playing the long game hoping we are to complacent to see until the gate closes behind us. Look at the number of declared socialist who have been elected in the past few years and one in particular (AOC) is, I think, going to run for president.

[NRATC53]

Correct- control the language, you control the topic. Remember Covid? How people were shut down for not sticking with the script (even though they were right)?

[Texas PO]

Exactly right. The first order of business for tyrants is control the media, control the information, and take the weapons.