Well, all right again, welcome back once again to the Gatowski files. I'm going to trip over my words right away. It is Thanksgiving week. So happy Thanksgiving to all of our American viewers and listeners. We hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday. Just a quick note as we're recording this. There's a couple of guardsmen in D.C. that have evidently been shot. Their conditions are unknown, but our prayers go out to them and to their families. Stephen, as I spoke, before we hit the record button, however you feel about the guard being in D.C., most certainly attacking individual guardsmen and women who didn't, you know, had no choice in being there is not the answer to any of it. Referensible. We'll find out more.

Yeah, and I think John's role on this is always a good one whenever there's a breaking

news story like this, which I think, you know, is something as a reporter, we try to live

by as much as possible, which is give it some time, let the details come out. We don't know

exactly why this has happened.

And there's even been plenty of early inaccurate reports about exactly what has happened.

But we do know it does seem to be relatively viable that the two guardsmen were shot,

and that is terrible in and of itself concur all right so we are

going to discuss a couple of uh there's an analysis piece and a news piece over at the reload

both written by jake fogleman contributing writer from not mistaken who we still need to get on the show

by the way um the first one of which is the analysis piece how how does DOJ justify the NFA despite its new $0 tax? And John was just talking about this the other day. Like, this has got to get disposed away or another. Seems to me that, you know, we talked about this. Is it just a registry now if there's no tax, at least for the suppressor, the silencer part, or not.

So talk to us about this, Stephen.

Yeah, and that is the main argument of, there's actually multiple lawsuits going from

coalitions of gun rights groups. This filing was in the, I believe, in the Gun Owners

America led coalition. And the gun rights advocates say, well, you know, the tax has now been cut to

zero. The purpose of the registry here is to show that you paid the tax. And it's been

traditionally understood to be part of Congress's power to levy taxes.

That's how the National Firearms Act is justified.

That's why it was able to be amended through reconciliation,

which is the budgetary process that they use in the Senate,

where you only need 50 votes for something to go through on

specifically budgetary measures instead of needing 60 votes on regular sorts of legislation.

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