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A Republican trifecta in Washington next year will likely see action on a bill to remove firearm suppressors from National Firearms Act regulation after 82 years.
The Hearing Protection Act was introduced last October by U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., and currently has 78 bipartisan co-sponsors from 34 states. Since then, the HPA has been among the top 10 most-viewed bills on Congress.gov almost every week since it was introduced.
However, with a slim Republican majority in the Senate unable to override a near-certain veto from President Obama, the bill has been in doldrums.
Now, with the White House under new management next year, advocates for the measure feel signs are looking up and will likely return to the next Congress with a fresh mandate.
Why is this important? Safety has been increasing in nearly every aspect and product since the beginning of time, but allowing people to protect their hearing by adding silencers to their weapons has been a tough road for gun owners for a long while.
“Imagine for a second that we lived in a world where you had to pay a $200 tax to buy a pair of earplugs,” Knox Williams, president of the American Suppressor Association, the industry trade group for the devices, told Guns.com on Wednesday. “Now, imagine that even after paying that tax you still had to wait 8 months before you could bring your earplugs home with you. As silly as that sounds, it’s the world we live in with suppressors in the NFA.”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @12:37PM
i doubt they will sell them with the pampers and formula. you'll probably have to be able to pass a background check so your argument breaks down. generally speaking, people don't take their legally bought guns(mostly from gun shops that keep records for the atf, no less) and commit crimes. the same will apply for silencers assuming said background check. also, i think the whole "detecting crime" argument is largely bullshit. this argument assumes that the cop[s are waiting, listening intently for gunshots so they can jump in the batmobile and go catch the bad guys. hint: they're busy out revenuein'. anyone who lives in the city knows no one even calls the cops nor do the cops investigate unless someone is shooting at someone, etc. same goes for the country. me and my neighbors shoot guns in our respective back yards. weekly/ dailyno one cares.
i think a jane's addiction quote is in order here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @01:16PM
I thought background checks were evil?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @02:25PM
Only when Democrats are in power. This is one of the few things I like about Republican administrations: the idiots are pacified.