Remember to lead the fox as he scoots away from the hen-house!
Posted on 04/28/2017 5:45:34 AM PDT by Elderberry
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz signed on as a co-sponsor to the Hearing Protection Act days before he’s scheduled to speak at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, where the bill is expected to be a major talking point.
The proposed measure has so far gained 14 co-sponsors, all Republicans, in the U.S. Senate and a related measure in the House has gained 137 co-sponsors, including three Democrats.
This legislative session is the second round for the bill. When it was proposed in the Senate in 2015, it gained only three sponsors. While the Texas senator was not one of them, he is known among gun rights groups for his no-compromise stance on guns, even picking up a presidential endorsement by Gun Owners of America during his campaign.
If passed, the HPA would remove silencers from items listed on the National Firearms Act, which requires buyers to complete legal paperwork and pay a $200 tax before obtaining one. According to the bill’s language, silencers would be regulated like rifles.
Supporters of the measure argue silencers should be treated as a safety device because it reduces the sound of a gunshot and helps to prevent hearing damage.
Yet, critics of the measure say it would only be a matter of time until they’re used to commit crimes. The items were prohibited along with machine guns and short-barreled long guns in 1934 as a response to prohibition-era gang violence.
Still, gun rights supporters have expressed optimism that the measure will pass this go around as they think President Trump will sign it if it makes it to his desk. His son, Donald Trump, Jr., has already thrown his support behind it.
Cruz is scheduled to appear alongside President Trump and other political leaders at the NRA’s Leadership Forum on Friday.
Remember to lead the fox as he scoots away from the hen-house!
Well, that probably killed it. Whatever this lying opportunist signs on to or sponsors usually ends up dead. Hope that isn’t true here but will have to wait and see.
Now tell us why you didn't jump on the bandwagon the first time around.
Silencers do not kill....the whole thing is stupid...and wasn't it a woman who started this cr**.
Didn’t take long for the mind-numbed Cruz-haters to show up and poison the conversation.
The primary is over, Reno. Time to make America great again. Move on.
I would think that a guy who put out a video of himself frying bacon on the hot barrel of a full-auto rifle while he was running for the RNC Presidential nomination would have signed on with the HPA a bit sooner.
Bump!
The 2016 election is over, but Lyn’ Ted is still Lyn’ Ted and until he is run out of office or quits, it will be the same. He even today has never endorsed Trump, still plays his little games, and all we see is the lying political hack popping up for his 15-minutes. He’s an embarrassment and I regret ever supporting him. Too bad others want to forgive and forget his lyn’ ways. I haven’t and won’t. So, yes, whenever someone wants to trot him out, you betcha, we’re going to equally remind of his sorid past. Values mean something, he has none.
I actually had high hopes for Cruz until he blamed the violence at Trump rallies on Trump.
Doing that places him in the same category of blaming lawful gun owners/carriers for criminal firearm acts.
At that point, Cruz moved from the, “Trust,” column towards the, “Trust But Verify,” column with me.
But, that’s just me.
“Ted Cruz signs on to Hearing Protection Act”
Cruz’s legislative acumen—I’m all in favor of moving on and MAGA, Cruzerman, but let’s face the facts: Ted Cruz has concentrated on selling his brand and running for president since taking office in 2012.
After four, going on five years, how many bills have Ted Cruz’s name on them?
Cruz sponsored a bill that denied admission to the United States to any United Nations representative who posed a national security threat (a response to Iran’s chosen U.N. representative).
That was like asking hungry bulldogs if they wanted meaty bones. The bill passed unanimously in both the Senate and the House.
One bill.
I don’t really like it being called the Hearing Protection Act.
Firearms Freedom Act or something would be better.
Inevitably, in time, it will morph into a requirement that firearms be muffled.
I see outdoor ranges being forced to REQUIRE mufflers on all firearm.
Or, if them not being forced, just requiring them on their own accord to avoid noise complaints.
That is my fear for the future of this.
Don't post false information and expect to get away with it.
Good grief...get a life!!!!
I hope this passes, I’ve been waiting since June 2016 for approval on my suppressor
My husband has lost his hearing - refuses to wear the hearing aids he bought. He wore them for about 5 years and after that NADA. Spent a lot of years at the gun range and in the desert shooting - always wore ear protection but also over 50 years flying in general aviation airplanes - instructing so inevitable that he would develop problems, I guess.
Don’t know who it’s the hardest on - the one who can’t hear or the one who has to repeat 10 times everything that’s said...or telling him constantly to wear the headset to listen to TV so it’s not blasting through the house.
Looks like about the only thing he has accomplished is a couple vanity re-naming and honorable mentions. Wow, ain’t that impressive. /s
89 bills matched your search for sponsor: Cruz, Ted (Sen.) [R-TX].
keep scrolling.
Calling it this, particularly in light of the number one tactic liberals use to shut down ranges, makes it much harder for liberals to oppose. Calling it the Firearms Freedom Act would please you, but make it harder to get passed.
Do you want it to have a pleasing-to-you name or do you want it to be passed so liberals lose a tool in their oppression kit? Pick one.
True.
Like Rush said hearing loss is the only disability where the victim is abused for their disability. Closed captions are the only thing that gets me through a TV show. Most cable boxes have sort of hidden preferences for Closed Captions but in my case I can make them more visible and less annoying for others at the same time.
If you have Netflix explore the closed caption settings there for some examples of readable captions without the huge black box covering a quarter of the screen. I use a medium size Casual Font, yellow in color with offset outline to ad clarity, no back ground color.(Transparent)
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