#2A - anti-Gun Lawmakers’ Lie LOUDLY Over Suppressors
Antigun politicians in Washington, D.C., must be getting nervous that provisions to remove unnecessary suppressor regulations are coming
Antigun politicians in Washington, D.C., must be getting nervous that provisions to remove unnecessary suppressor regulations – or at least the punitive tax that’s required to buy one – is getting close to reality. You can tell by how loudly they lie about suppressors.
Gun control lawmakers are cranking up the volume on their opposition to removing onerous regulations on suppressors – and the rhetoric is astoundingly without merit. Put another way, it lacks facts. Or more bluntly – these politicians are straight out lying.
Like many things on Capitol Hill, when facts aren’t on your side, you just say it louder hoping to drown out the truth.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed provisions in H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” that would remove suppressors from the National Firearms Act (NFA) but continue to regulate them like a firearm under the Gun Control Act (GCA) as they are now. That provision would eliminate the need for duplicative background checks, submission by the purchaser of a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Form 4, fingerprints, photos, notification of a chief law enforcement officer and payment of a $200 tax stamp requirement. That’s all been proposed in previous legislation called the Hearing Protection Act, introduced by …