Montana's top prosecutor reported Monday that GOP lawmakers will take up a bill next session to scrap remaining state tax-stamp rules on suppressors plus short rifles and shotguns. Federal regulators on October 9, 2026 stopped demanding National Firearms Act clearance for those items after expanding an August district-court finding against the old registration scheme, though some states including Montana had kept extra paperwork. He credited Wylie Galt, Carl Glimm and Braxton Mitchell for pushing the repeal.