A pre-enforcement challenge by Texas and several state residents to a restriction on gun silencers was turned away by a federal district court for a lack of standing.
Texas residents would like to create their own silencers without applying to do so, or paying a $200 tax to do so, as required by federal law. They sued the federal government in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and the state government joined them, to confirm their ability to make silencers at home unburdened by federal regulation in order to improve their ability for self defense.
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