2026-10-09 16:20:35 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
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2026年10月9日 / 美国东部时间下午4:20 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿讯——美国司法部周五表示，在一名联邦法官宣布该1934年国会通过的枪支监管法案大部分内容违宪后，司法部将不再执行该法的部分条款。该法案原本旨在监管黑帮常用的各类枪支。
美国烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局发布的新指南面向当前和未来的枪支拥有者。司法部已于上月决定不再就该法官的裁决提起上诉。
根据新指南，联邦政府将不再要求个人在制造或转让短管步枪、短管霰弹枪、消音器及其他各类隐蔽性枪支前提交申请并获得监管批准。
美国司法部还表示，其新的法律指导意见并未取代限制此类武器销售的州和地方法律，并补充称，由于许多州的法律仍要求民众登记这些枪支，司法部将继续自愿处理相关登记申请。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻上月曾独家报道，特朗普总统已下令司法部不要就德克萨斯州的这起法院裁决提起上诉，该裁决放宽了此前被称为“黑帮武器”的枪支使用限制。
该裁决影响了《全国枪支法》的大部分内容。该法案要求任何希望出售、持有或制造受该法案监管的枪支或装置的个人，除其他要求外，必须向烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局提交详细的书面申请。
该法案旨在管控禁酒令时期黑帮经常使用的最危险且最易于隐蔽的武器。
但今年8月，由特朗普任命的美国北德克萨斯地区联邦法官詹姆斯·韦斯利·亨德里克斯裁决，《全国枪支法》中除两类特殊枪支外的绝大多数限制条款均违宪，原因是国会去年取消了针对这些枪支的200美元税费。
法官当时写道：“由于如今的《全国枪支法》无法从未缴税的枪支中获得任何收入，其监管条款无法依据征税权得到支持。”
该裁决源于15个红州以及包括美国枪支拥有者协会和美国枪支拥有者基金会在内的多个第二修正案枪支权利团体和个人针对政府提起的两起合并诉讼。
司法部内部的许多律师曾建议就该裁决提起上诉，称其已经对正在进行的刑事案件产生不利影响，且违反了政府维护国会通过的法律的职责。
尽管法院阻止烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局执行该法案大部分内容的裁决仅适用于诉讼当事人，但该裁决的措辞给检察官带来了挑战。
这是因为法官表示，他的裁决还将扩大到任何“当前或未来”加入就该规则提起诉讼的枪支团体的成员。美国枪支拥有者协会的基础会员费仅为25美元。
鉴于这一法律漏洞，烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局周五表示，今后将不会对“任何人在国内制造、持有和转让短管步枪、短管霰弹枪、消音器”及其他适用装置或武器的行为，执行此次诉讼核心涉及的《全国枪支法》相关条款。
DOJ says it won’t enforce provisions of 1934 firearms law that were gutted by court ruling
2026-10-09 16:20:35 / CBS News
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October 9, 2026 / 4:20 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington— The Justice Department said on Friday it will no longer enforce certain provisions of a 1934 law that was passed by Congress to regulate the types of firearms often used by mobsters, after a federal judge declared large parts of the law were unconstitutional.
The new guidelines released by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were issued to current and future gun owners. The Justice Department determined last month it would not appeal the judge’s ruling.
Under the new guidelines, the federal government will no longer require individuals to apply and receive regulatory approval before making or transferring short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors and other various types of concealable firearms.
The Justice Department also said its new legal guidance does not supersede state and local laws that restrict the sale of those categories of weapons, adding that because many state laws still require people to register those firearms, it will continue to process those applications voluntarily.
CBS News exclusively reported last month that President Trump had ordered the Justice Department not to appeal the court ruling in Texas that loosened the limits on what used to be called “gangster weapons.”
The ruling impacted large parts of the National Firearms Act, which mandated that anyone wishing to sell, possess or make a firearm or device covered by the law had to submit a detailed written application to the ATF, among other requirements.
The law was aimed at addressing the most dangerous and easily concealable weapons that were often used by mobsters during the Prohibition era.
But in August, U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, a Trump appointee in the Northern District of Texas, ruled that most of the restrictions on all but two categories of specialized firearms regulated under the National Firearms Act are unconstitutional after Congress last year eliminated a $200 tax imposed on them.
“Because today’s NFA does not generate any revenue from untaxed firearms, its regulatory provisions cannot be upheld under the taxing power,” the judge wrote at the time.
The decision came in two consolidated cases brought against the government by 15 red states and a number of Second Amendment gun rights groups and individuals, including the Gun Owners of America and the Gun Owners Foundation.
Many lawyers within the Justice Department recommended that the decision should be appealed, saying it was already adversely impacting ongoing criminal cases and that it ran afoul of the government’s duty to defend the laws passed by Congress.
Although the court’s ruling blocking the ATF from enforcing large parts of the law only applied to the parties in the lawsuit, its wording had created challenges for prosecutors.
That’s because the judge said his ruling would also extend to any “current or future” members of the gun groups that sued over the rules. A basic membership to the Gun Owners of America is only $25.
Given that loophole, the ATF said on Friday that going forward it will not enforce the provisions of the National Firearms Act at the heart of the lawsuit against “any person as applied to the domestic manufacturing, possession, and transfer of short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers” and other applicable devices or weapons.
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