national-firearms-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A888 Patrick Tate Adamiak v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-05 Application bruen-standard criminal-possession firearm-relics national-firearms-act second-amendment statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-120 David Schieferle v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied 2nd-amendment atf-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms firearms-silencer national-firearms-act second-amendment self-defense silencers Whether items such as inline fuel filters and firearms solvent traps, which might be able to function to muffle or silence the report of a firearm, ca…
22-976 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Michael Cargill Fifth Circuit 2023-04-07 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Relisted (4) 2nd-amendment administrative-law atf atf-rule bump-stock firearms firearms-regulation machinegun-definition national-firearms-act statutory-interpretation trigger-mechanism Whether a bump stock device is a "machinegun" as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b) because it is designed and intended for use in converting a rifle into a…
20-7301 Bernandino Gawala Bolatete v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment article-i congress-power-to-tax congressional-power criminal-law criminal-punishment firearms-regulation national-firearms-act suppressor-registration taxation-clause tenth-amendment Petitioner was convicted under 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and 5871, sections of the National Firearms Act that impose criminal penalties of up to 10 years' …
19-6220 Nerses Nick Bronsozian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 GVR IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process firearms firearms-regulation national-firearms-act registration statutory-construction taxation taxation-power When the National Firearms Act ("NFA") was passed in 1934, the sole constitutional authority for the law was Congress's power to tax under U.S. Const.…
19-5098 Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states In Staples v. United States, the Court held that to obtain a conviction under 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), the government was required to prove that the defen…
18-7922 Thomas Isaac LaFleur v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-registration firearm-definition national-firearms-act second-amendment staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-freed weapon-classification Did the Eleventh Circuit court of Appeals error in denying the Petitioner's SubjctMatter Jurisdiction claim, where the charging documents statute [26 …
18-936 Jeremy Kettler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Amici (2) 2nd-amendment congressional-taxing-power constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cox-v-new-hampshire due-process murdock-v-pennsylvania national-firearms-act second-amendment sound-suppressor standing statutory-interpretation tax taxation united-states-v-sonzinsky 1. Whether the National Firearms Act of 1934, upheld in Sonzinsky, continues to be a constitutional exercise of Congress's taxing power when the justi…
18-5541 Darren Kyle Stepp-Zafft v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-penalty due-process firearms-regulation national-firearms-act nfa-firearms right-to-bear-arms second-amendment tax taxation united-states-constitution Is 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d) a valid exercise of Congress's power to tax?