Some of Our Own Want to Keep the National Firearms Act for Big Money?
The NFA is coming from inside the House: On the rumors about companies undermining NFA reform.
An good piece from Open Source Defense. The rumors could be true. I hope not. The NFA needs to go away with extreme prejudice. One of my chief faults is giving people the ‘benefit of the doubt’ and it has cost dearly over the years… - DD
…(T)here were various bills under discussion to remove silencers and potentially other items from the NFA, then those bills got watered down to keep everything in the NFA but reduce the cost of a silencer tax stamp to $0. That will probably be the final draft that gets voted on (if it does ever get voted on), despite some chatter that the more comprehensive reforms are still under discussion.
The really explosive gossip is that silencer companies were lobbying behind the scenes to keep silencers in the NFA. Silencer Central put out a statement endorsing the Hearing Protection Act after social media glommed onto them for some reason as the culprits…
It makes sense at a surface level that incumbents who have built their business in the current regulatory context might be comfortable in that world and might not want to see it change. And sure, in theory a company might lobby in favor of the status quo if they were unprincipled and knew that the truth would never come out.
But is that the world we live in? Forget that a lot of the people running these companies are actually quite principled. Imagine instead a mustache-twirling villain running a silencer company, just waiting for a chance to sell out your rights to the government. Even he would know better than to lobby against NFA reform. Because…
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