SHORT Act Added to Big Beautiful Bill While Dems Try to Kill Suppressor NFA Deregulation
In a bold legislative move, the U.S. Senate has added language from the SHORT Act—which would deregulate short-barreled rifles (SBRs) […]
In a bold legislative move, the U.S. Senate has added language from the SHORT Act—which would deregulate short-barreled rifles (SBRs) […]
“These devices make it harder to hear gunfire. That means they delay police response time, make it easier for criminals to get away with murder, literally.”
Giffords’ push poll claims that the Hearing Protection Act would eliminate background checks on suppressor sales. That is an outright lie and Giffords knows it.
Anti-gun logic: Mass murderers use silencers (they don’t) so their victims can’t hear the gun shots (from bullets that go
At the risk of sounding like a Gen X grandpa (I qualify for both) I will say that gun buyers
“If we doubled it, if we just went to $400, you could sell only half as many and not lose a penny in revenue. If we tripled it, you might actually discourage some sales of silencers. Wouldn’t that be a good thing for us to be doing in this committee?”
There’s a gun bill before Congress where the worst-case scenario is that gun laws stay unchanged. Normally that’s the best-case scenario. In fact, Congress has never passed a law that lessened regulations on gun purchases.
I guess it just reminds me how effectively a huge number of left leaning voters have been lied to about guns and how they work (as well as gun owners, for that matter) and it’s hard to know how to start undoing that damage.
The news for readers here, however, is what was included in the bill. The final version doesn’t just zero out the $200 tax stamp on suppressor purchases, it removes them entirely from regulation under the National Firearms Act.