NFA items in Texas

[ChronoCube]

I am asking this purely out of academic curiosity. I have no plans to own a suppressor, SBR, FA, etc, any time soon.

Here in Texas, the law is worded to prohibit ownership of NFA items, with those that are legally registered under the NFA listed as an exception -- rather than treating NFA violation as the crime:

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/SOTWDocs/PE/htm/PE.46.htm

Sec. 46.05. PROHIBITED WEAPONS. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs, or sells:

(1) an explosive weapon;

(2) a machine gun;

(3) a short-barrel firearm;

(4) a firearm silencer;

(c) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the actor's possession was pursuant to registration pursuant to the National Firearms Act, as amended.

My question is, given the wording of this law, if the NFA were rendered null -- e.g. repealed by Congress, Texas secedes from the USA, etc -- wouldn't all the owners of NFA items in Texas be in violation of it? The legislature might come around and realize this technicality and fix it, but I can't help but wonder if some overzealous district attorney in some urban area would take it as an opportunity to bust a few people and make it look like he was "doing something."

I am no legal expert... Maybe there is some legal doctrine that addresses a dependency of the law under one jurisdiction on the laws of another, and how changes in the law will affect the dependent law.

 

[CleverNickname]

As a Texas resident who owns quite a few title II guns, your scenario is waaaay towards the bottom of the list of potential changes to firearms law for me to worry about.