Hearing protection act (suppressors) introduced

[Rotnguns]

Not sure if this should go in the gear forum, but it has political overtones so I posted it here. One of our Idaho senators and a representative from Virginia have reintroduced the Hearing Protection Act which will remove suppressors from their current NFA status. Perhaps this time around it will have a chance of passing.

NRA-ILA | The Hearing Protection Act Introduced in the 119th Congress

U.S. Representative Ben Cline (R-VA-06) and U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) recently reintroduced the Hearing Protection Act (H.R. 404/S. 364) in the 119th Congress. This commonsense legislation will give gun owners and hunters the opportunity to better protect their hearing when exercising their...

www.nraila.org

 

[Maxhunter]

That would be great

 

[StupidLightweight]

This would be huge, but after crushing our dreams in 2017 when it last stalled, I’m not holding my breath. If you have an upcoming suppressor purchase planned, don’t put it off hoping for the HPA to pass.

 

[Wrench]

I'm pretty sure we're going to see all of the nfa stuff go away. The nfa hinges on "dangerous and unusual". California describes everything as dangerous, guns are obviously dangerous....so dangerous is subjective.

Unusual. There are over 700k machine guns registered so that isn't unusual.....and it is legal for a fee to own them. The constitution doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms for a fee, it says you have the right.

We don't pay for any other right to be exercised.

Don't be shocked if this goes away. There are bigger fish to fry right now in the gov, and with most of .gov diligently trying to not get canned, I imagine there's not a lot of litigators who wish to jump on the train of rights suppression in the current environment.

 

[StupidLightweight]

I sure hope you're right. That would be huge.