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If we want to be genuinely Talmudic about all this, a suppressor isn’t an “arm” in the first place, and therefore they can be made illegal right now. The same goes for any firearm accessory whatsoever, including detachable magazines AND bullets themselves. “You have a right to keep and bear arms, but you don’t have any right to ammunition for those arms. We’re making bullets illegal now.”

If the NFA itself is ever actually repealed (yes yes, it’s not de facto legal, but it’s de jure legal), expect a 2000% tax on ammunition to be passed immediately.

I can confirm that the suppressor-related text of the appropriations bill is an exact copy of the 2025 Hearing Protection Act, which strikes "firearm suppressor or silencer" from the NFA and adds it to the '68 GCA. This would make suppressors purchasable with a form 4473 and background check or license to carry.

The legislative concern is that if the chair of the senate budget committee (currently Lindsey Graham) rules against the inevitable democrat objection that the HPA provision violates the "Byrd rule" of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 on the grounds that it doesn't significantly alter revenue, that leaves a backdoor for a Democrat majority congress to add any and all firearms to the NFA under the guise of generating revenue. If Graham does allow the objection to go to the floor it would take 60 votes to not have it stricken from the appropriations bill.

Conversely the committee could send it back with a sunset provision like the '94 AWB, but that would just result in any non-registered suppressors becoming instant felonies when it expired.

I'm still for the senate passing it as-is, because the communists won't stop trying to take your weapons until the deadliest thing you're allowed a loicense for is a steel pipe, and at least if they're trying to overtly and immediately tax-ban your guns you know whose house to go burn down.

2A is a constitutional right. Regulating them can't possibly protect them.

Yeah just stating the obvious for anyone not aware. ;)

Didn't even give me a updoot

Typical NPC response. Doesn't understand that the Government is the PROBLEM.

"Shall Not Infringe. Aka the entire Judicial Branch has failed for letting infringements occur at all."

Not the solution.

We will never get a win from Government.

Kill yourself, worthless genx grifter. Incapable of understanding his Savior is his Executioner.

This happens often. Bills get modified, they get sent back and forth, and on one of the volleys it will just die.

Then after years of that happening not even passing the things they want to pass, they wait until there is a CR (continuing resolution) with a deadline to put all the dead legislation they've seen over the years, whether good or bad, and they actually pass it because a deadline prevents the volley.

Which is why you want to put the most based shit possible in these bills. It's not going to pass anyway. We might as well get them working up the muscle memory of voting yes, abolish the fed, or yes, make it illegal for a state to offer any kind of welfare to an illegal immigrant, or yes we should eliminate capital gains tax on individuals making less than $50k from realized gains (everyone but hedge funds).

Really scary thing is that would end up being appealed after a trial and conviction and right to an appeal is practically a lottery anyway.