Bill introduced to remove silencers from the NFA

examiner ^ | October 23, 2015 | Mike Searson

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On Thursday, October 22, Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) introduced H.R. 3799, the Hearing Protection Act (HPA) along with 10 co-sponsors, including Representatives Frank Guinta (R-NH), John Carter (R-TX), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Chris Collins (R-NY), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Mia Love (R-UT), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), and Chris Stewart (R-UT). The HPA would remove silencers from regulation under the National Firearms Act (NFA), leaving them to be treated as ordinary firearms subject to the usual NICS check and Form 4473 for dealer sales.

Currently, silencers are subject to the NFA process with “CLEO sign-off,” a 4 to 14 month wait and a $200 tax. In and of itself a silencer is completely harmless.

Their primary function is to reduce the sound signature of the firearm to which they are attached, protecting the hearing of the shooter and reducing noise and disturbance to those close by.

Although they have been subject to heightened regulation under federal law since 1934, silencers have become increasingly popular in recent years, as more and more hunters and firearm enthusiasts have discovered their benefits.

The process has been made incredibly easy the past few years by a company known as silencershop.com who is like the Amazon.com of the NFA world. As a distributor they keep a huge variety of silencers in inventory and can help buyers establish a trust if they need it. Simply order on line, pay forit and select a local dealer to have the item delivered once the paperwork clears.

To ensure the possibility of passage of the HPA does not discourage people from exercising their rights to acquire silencers in the meantime, the Act would allow those who buy one after October 22, 2015, but before the Act’s effective date, to obtain a refund of the NFA’s $200 tax.

[RC one]

nice nice nice. I have the black threaded 22/45 with upper and lower rails. It will soon have a huntertown arms suppressor on it and I’ll probably do a laser on the lower rail. It’s not my good old trusty Mark II but it should make those night shots easier.

[RC one]

I would think that anyone who has invested that kind of coin into a firearm would be disinclined to see their investment lose all of its value. Maybe I’m wrong though.

[Carthego delenda est]

I’d like to put a lower rail on mine for the same reason. Makes those low light shots at rabbits in the garden easier, and a laser sure helps if one finds themself having to make a shot while laying down on one’s side.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Not your problem...any descent website autimatically fixes size so this doesn’t happen. I have my own website. If you had posted your pic there. It would have been 750 pixels wide...auto sized for our forum. I’ve written FR over and over on this subject ...last time got a reply of “if up you used a real computer you wouldn’t have the problem!” I’m still waiting for an apology. (An anti-Apple mod Jim allows to hang around). I had offered a fix and that’s the response I got. This problem can be fixed quickly, but nobody listens.

[Red in Blue PA]

People buy in knowing that it is a possibility to have this overturned. How is the 86 law in any way Constitutional or just when it bans the manufacture of FA guns forever for civilians? So in 100 years they can hope to acquire a pile of rust?

It needs to be overturned and is the one disgraceful thing that Ronald Reagan did.

[Red in Blue PA]

BTW, maybe Obama would overturn the 86 law if someone whispered in his hear that by doing so he would be “sticking it to gun owners”

[West Texas Chuck]

Oh, that’s it, I hate you!

Nice piece, mine has a 2x scope but no muffler.

[RC one]

I would love to see it overturned but I think it will be divisive. I blame Charlie Rangel for this btw. He rammed the Hughes amendment through on a voice vote and declined to have a recorded vote. The Hughes amendment was never passed. Noted at 5:30: "Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote". Noted that the Charlie Rangel ignored that call for a recorded vote and a subsequent call fore a recorded vote at around 6:15 after his ears determined that the ayes outnumbered the nays at 6:08. My ears discerned something different.

[RC one]

and then at 6:44 the recorded vote is submitted and the hughes amendment was shot down 297 votes to 124 yet managed to get on the bill anyways and then signed by Ronald Reagan.

[Mycroft Holmes]

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[Carthego delenda est]

“Oh, that’s it, I hate you!
Nice piece, mine has a 2x scope but no muffler.”

lol! I haven’t even broken her in yet. My heavy barreled all stainless Mark 2 is going to get jealous. May have to keep them in seperate cabinets.