By Tanya Metaksa
What’s New—Even before President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill on July 4, 2025, Gun Owners of America announced the filing of a lawsuit against the NFA’s registration mandates; Poway Weapons & Gear v. Bonta: Case No: 25-25: The opening brief of the Plaintiffs-Appellants was filed on June 30, 2025, in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals..
One Big Beautiful Lawsuit
On July 3, after passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, Gun Owners of America posted the following on x.com:
House pases Senate’s $0 NFA tax stamp 218-214
GOA, @FRACAction, @SilencerShop, @PamettoARmory, and B&T USA will file a lawsuit to remove suppressors & short-barreled firearms from the NFA.
The NFA now stands on more unconstitutional grounds than ever before.
A copy of the bill can be found here.The case is known as Silencer Shop Foundation, et. al v. BATFE. It is being filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Court of Appeals
California: Ninth Circuit
Poway Weapons & Gear v. Bonta: Case No: 25-25: The opening brief of the Plaintiffs-Appellants was filed on June 30, 2025.
District Court: Case No.3:19-cv-01226: This case was first filed on July 1, 2019, by The Calguns Foundation (CGF), Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF), and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), challenging the State of California’s discriminatory age-based ban on firearm purchases by legal adults between the ages of 18 and 20. Six years later, Judge M. James Lorenz finally delivered an opinion on March 25.
Judge Lorenz denied the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and granted the Defendants’ motion because “Plaintiffs have not met their burden to raise a genuine issue of material fact that Section 27510 meaningfully impairs 18-to-20-year-olds’ ability to commercially acquire firearms so as to fall within the plain text of the Second Amendment.”
In Washington state, the Sportsmen’s Alliance, a national organization headquartered in Ohio, has filed a motion for summary judgment in its ongoing legal battle over public records with the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, and the Fish & Wildlife Commission.
The Alliance says it waited more than a year for the agency to provide documents related to several policy decisions made by the Fish & Wildlife Commission including the cancellation of Washington’s traditional spring black bear hunt. According to a news release, the organization “issued a records request in September of 2023, asking WDFW for communication records between commissioners and others on spring bear hunting and a host of other policy issues the commission was considering.”
The lawsuit was filed in January of this year. The case is known as Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation v. Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. It was filed in Thurston County, Washington Superior Court.
