Eliminating the $200 tax on suppressors & short-barrels has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO with turning semiautomatic firearms into machineguns. We need mental acuity tests in the Senate for folks like Senator Jack Reed.
Because this particular penalty involves guns, Democrats who usually worry about excessively harsh criminal punishment are warning that any attempt to apply the disability more judiciously will endanger the public.
Last night, the Senate chose what’s behind door number one. They’ve added language to the One Big Beautiful Bill that would eliminate the NFA’s $200 tax on suppressors, SBRs, SBSs and machineguns.
The fact that the National Firearms Act has been defended as a tax on gun ownership by the federal government
The Wall Street Journal reported, “Big banks are trying to get out of the crosshairs of Republican states that are cracking down on companies for ‘woke’ policies that conservative policymakers say are illegal and discriminatory.”
The Anti-Red Flag Act also seeks to gird against any future federal red-flag law. S.B. 1362 prevents Texas entities from accepting federal dollars to help implement or enforce an ERPO.
At this point everyone following the National Firearms Act debate is well aware of then-Attorney General Cummings’ famous testimony in
An infinite number of laws on the books are worthless unless they are used to prosecute people with illegal machine guns and conversion devices instead of seeking to shift responsibility for these crimes onto gunmaker GLOCK, Inc.
The Senate’s move to gut large sections of the NFA is one of the most significant pro-gun reforms in nearly a century. But unless the holes are closed, gun owners could face legal limbo in anti-gun states and suppressor sales could stall at a critical moment.
“Authorizing teenagers to carry a concealed weapon with no training whatsoever is dangerous. The bill would also make the job of a law enforcement officer more difficult and less safe.”
