Posted on 06/23/2025 5:44:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — The massive tax and spending cuts package that President Trump wants on his desk by July 4 would loosen regulations on gun silencers and certain types of rifles and shotguns, advancing a longtime priority of the gun industry as Republican leaders in the House and Senate try to win enough votes to pass the bill.
The guns provision was first requested in the House by Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Republican gun store owner who had initially opposed the larger tax package. The House bill would remove silencers — called “suppressors” by the gun industry — from a 1930s law that regulates firearms that are considered the most dangerous, eliminating a $200 tax while removing a layer of background checks.
The Senate kept the provision on silencers in its version of the bill and expanded upon it, adding short-barreled, or sawed-off, rifles and shotguns.
Republicans who have long supported the changes, along with the gun industry, say the tax infringes on 2nd Amendment rights. They say silencers are mostly used by hunters and target shooters for sport.
“Burdensome regulations and unconstitutional taxes shouldn’t stand in the way of protecting American gun owners’ hearing,” said Clyde, who owns two gun stores in Georgia and often wears a pin shaped like an assault rifle on his suit lapel.
Democrats are fighting to stop the provision, which was unveiled days after two Minnesota state legislators were shot in their homes, as the bill speeds through the Senate. They argue that loosening regulations on silencers could make it easier for criminals and active shooters to conceal their weapons.
“Parents don’t want silencers on their streets, police don’t want silencers on their streets,” said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
The gun language has broad support among Republicans and has received...
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Nobody wants these in the streets. They want them at the range and out in the field.
Although they could be useful in the streets for riot control (h/t Col. Jeff Cooper). A suppressed .22 can take the wind out of a rioter's sails very quickly without them being mortally wounded, and they won't know where the shot came from.
>I just cannot believe that they are about to legalize SBRs and silencers. I’d bet a paycheck they won’t. But dang this is getting closer than ever before.
They’ve always been legal, just have to pay for the $200 tax stamp, submit your 4473, pass the bg check if needed in your state and take it home. Unless you live in a commie state
Silencers just REDUCE sound and recoil. More enjoyable for the range and hunting. Socialist Demoncrats need to be less ignorant.
Good deal now I won’t wake up my neighbors when a intruder brakes into my home.
Thanks so much T.B that’s some really great info. Just got one of the MP5 clones so I am trying to familiarize myself with the options. Do the locking block actions like beretta 92 have less problems than the tilting barrel with suppressed cycling because the barrel doesn’t tilt? Or is any extra mass on the end of the barrel screwing up cycling suppressed? These are probably stupid questions, just never had any experience with suppressors.
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My understanding is that the M9 can be suppressed with a "boosterless" suppressor if the suppressor is light enough. I believe the military contract suppressor was meant to run "wet" which helps when lacking a LID.
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