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The ghost-gun rule held unconstitutional, the forced-reset-trigger settlement, a revived rights-restoration process, and where the NFA now stands

In twelve August days, one federal court held the National Firearms Act's registration scheme unconstitutional for suppressors and short-barreled firearms, another held ATF's "ghost gun" frame-and-receiver rule unconstitutional, and the Department of Justice revived a firearm-rights-restoration process dormant since 1992. Together with the 2025 forced-reset-trigger settlement, these events mark the sharpest shift in federal firearms regulation in a generation. Read this article for what changed, what didn't, and what it means in Missouri.