For the first time in nine decades, the legal architecture surrounding some of America's most tightly controlled firearms is beginning to come apart — not through legislation, but through a judicial ruling that President Trump has chosen not to contest. A federal judge in Texas, appointed by Trump, determined that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's elimination of a key tax effectively severed the constitutional foundation of the National Firearms Act of 1934, freeing short-barreled rifles, shotguns, and silencers from their long-regulated status for certain groups. In declining to appeal — again