Posted on 05/28/2025 1:46:11 PM PDT by absalom01
We’ve got some fantastic news for you folks, but it’s tempered a little bit, and that’s where you come in to help out. The Hearing Protection Act (HPA) recently passed out of the House of Representatives as an integral part of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Budget Bill. It is now on its way to the Senate to hopefully be passed in the budget reconciliation process.
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Given that bias, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to regain some firearm freedoms. Naturally, the leftist gun-grabbing ghoul lobby is losing its collective mind over this development, so they are going full fear-mongering mode in pumping out the hysteria and the lies.
William Kirk, from Washington Gun Law, produced a good “Halftime report” on where we are now to get you up to speed on the issue:
There’s also this update from Braden of Langley Outdoors Academy:
The far left and the national socialist media (which are one and the same) are wish-casting on all cylinders, hoping for disarray on the pro-freedom side of the aisle, placing far too much stock in the claim that the Big Beautiful Bill is DOA. In fact, the Senate leans toward preserving much of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill:
Senate Republicans are hotly debating whether to do a full teardown of the House’s sweeping tax and spending bill, or gently renovate it. Right now, the renovators are winning out.
We’re more focused on the Senate parliamentarian and the Byrd Rule, and this is just the beginning of the politicking.
Because later on, you will need to melt the phone lines for the Senate as we did for the House. So, get ready to call the switchboard number (202) 224-3131 to have your Senator support the Hearing Protection Act (HPA)
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
(202) 224-3131
With all of the Democrat Pols melting down over "Maryland Fathers", and going all-in as dMS-13, maybe this will just manage to sneak past reconciliation.
But maybe not.
So call the switchboard!
(And I know it's not perfect, you still have to fill out a 4473, but I'll take the W, and keep pushing for better outcomes in the future.)
What?
With the number of black and Mexican maniacs shooting up house parties, nightclubs, etc. There is no way in hell Congress will legalize silencers and remove them from NFA.
Fun to fantasize, but just never gonna fly.
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They're already legal in many states, which negates the argument that they're unsafe in other places.
They're sold in peg hook packs in hardware stores in Europe and are required at many outdoor ranges there.
In addition, 3D printing has already made it possible for criminals to get them.
“What you need to know” headlines are obnoxious - guaranteed to make me not read the article.
“They’re already legal in many states, which negates the argument that they’re unsafe in other places”
Nope... that proves that people who go through the NFA class III process for half a year don’t commit crimes.
And I have seen that in Europe. In England years ago, I went out hunting with a farmer and every gun he owned had one... even shotguns.
He considered it polite and it was no big deal to own one.
But this repub congress is NOT conservative in any way. There is no way in hell they are gonna let hood rats in Florida, St Louis, Chicongo, LA, Albuquerque, Denver, Philly Etc get far easier access to silencers. Just not gonna happen.
3d printing, yeah. And of Facebook you always get these “Fuel filter” kit advertisements that are nothing but silencers ready to go with the drilling of a single hole.
But a fuel filter or printer homemade without you NFA gets you 10 years federal.
I would love it if they did it... but they won’t.
Maybe if we tell them we are Ukrainian or something....
“”where we are now to get you up to speed on the issue: “”
Have no idea what they’re talking about - what is HPA? If I truly wanted to know, I guess I have to google it but I don’t really care!
Where would we be if articles REALLY MADE SENSE?
The HPA is the Hearing Protection Act. It’s an attempt to get silencers/suppressors removed from the National Firearms Act of 1934. Bills with the same name were introduced in 2015 and later 2017. Thanks to the Mandalay Bay shooting, any hope of this going through and getting passed died. It was reintroduced this year, didn’t make it out of committee, and later bundled into the Big Beautiful Bill, where it will likely die again. On the issue of gun rights as a whole the democrats are hostile, most republicans appear to be indifferent if not passive aggressive.
Have no idea what they’re talking about - what is HPA?
The explanation is in the second sentence of the piece "The Hearing Protection Act (HPA) recently passed out of the House of Representatives as an integral part of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Budget Bill."
But that's neither here nor there. Please, just call the Senate switchboard (202) 224-3131, and ask your senator to vote for the HPA/Hearing Protection Act, a part of the "Big Beautiful Bill" currently before them. They'll know what you're talking about.
OK, don’t read the article.
Just call your senator and ask them to support the HPA. Please.
My Senators - surely you jest!!! Check out GA US senators...
A bill passing out of the House as part of the president’s BBBB does nothing to explain WHAT HPA is - but never mind...
When it comes to the word “hearing”, we are inundated with THOSE out of DC so what else would come to mind?
I would agree we need protection from HEARINGS!!!!!
My take is that you are still going to need a background check because they are going to be considered firearms, but that it would then be no different than firearm purchase from a FFL holder. If that’s right, I’m pleasantly surprised the house passed it this way, to my understanding the original language was just getting rid of the tax stamp but keeping it on the NFA somehow.
If it passes somehow, I wonder what is going to happen to the silencer market short term and long term.
Freegards
My take is the NFA is 180’ wrong. It was a stupid from the getgo in 1934. Government civil servants on domestic soil should comply with NFA safety protocols not citizens.
Good point.
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