GOP tax bill would ease regulations on gun silencers and some rifles and shotguns

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 23, 2025 8:49 AM PT | Mary Clare Jalonick

[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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TOPICS: Government
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[larrytown]

Democrats- selling the same old lies since FDR.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Anyone have the part of the bill that deals with this?

[Navy Patriot]

I am sporting a BIG grin while telling Democrats that President Trump would reduce Taxes, ... $200 is a reduction!

[oldasrocks]

I want a silencer for my wife and would pay a lot more that $200 for it.

[Lurker]

Can we put a silencer on Schumer’s pie hole?

L

[frank ballenger]

Saw the headline and thought of posting “okay to stop silencers, just leave the suppressors alone” until I saw the correction line in the later part of the story.

[NoLibZone]

• In the Senate’s budget reconciliation version of the bill (the finance committee draft).
• It’s embedded as a policy rider in the tax-and-spending legislation, effectively removing silencers, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), and short-barreled shotguns (SBSs) from National Firearms Act (NFA) oversight .

In short: check the Senate Finance Committee’s reconciliation text of the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” That’s where you’ll find the expanded firearms deregulation section.

[mabarker1]

HEY you LIEING TREASONOUS SCUMBAG upchucky schlepter, STFU, KMA and FOAD !!!

[Ransomed]

I tried to find specific text in the actual BBB because I was curious too, no dice. But apparently it simply includes the full text of the latest SHORT Act and the Hearing Protection Act. I could be wrong so who knows.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/404/text

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2395/text

Freegards

[nevadapatriot]

>I want a silencer for my wife and would pay a lot more that $200 for it.

Screw-on or tri-lug quick disconnect mount on that johnson?

[Navy Patriot]

Well Played, Rocks!

[Myrddin]

I hope the bill succeeds to remove the tax from suppressors and SBRs. I want a suppressor to run on my Form 1 SBR in 300BLK. I would love to be able to use some of my 15" barrels on the T/C Encore frame with a full stock. It won't amount to a lot of new retail sales or "loss" of tax revenue, but it would make my current property more usable.

[Ransomed]

To my understanding it not only eliminates the tax but eliminates the need to register them. I guess it’s just going to be like purchasing a firearm from a FFL holder with a background check, but I’m not sure. In some euro nations you can supposedly buy suppressors off the shelf. I hope it gets through as well. This is the closest it has ever come some far.

Freegards

[T.B. Yoits]

I hope it gets through as well. This is the closest it has ever come some far.

You knew it was coming when Hi-Point released their "Gen 2" version of the JHP 45 with a threaded barrel in 2023:

[SuperLuminal]

Hmmm...
If I can use a silencer at the range, my 92-year-old eardrums would not take such a beating...

[Ransomed]

I’ve never messed around with suppressors, is there a real-world difference between direct blowback and delayed/locked breech with suppressors as far as decibel reduction?

Freegards

[DesertRhino]

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.

[ConservativeMind]

Democrats basically just stand for evil.

[T.B. Yoits]

I’ve never messed around with suppressors, is there a real-world difference between direct blowback and delayed/locked breech with suppressors as far as decibel reduction?

Direct blowback can already have more "port pop" where some of the gasses pop as they exit back through the ejection port. The delayed blowback should have less port pop due to the delay allowing more gas to follow the bullet. Adding a suppressor would only increase the pressure rearward. Adding a gas block could help.

The bigger issue with a tilting barrel is that it wasn't designed to work with the extra weight of the suppressor on the end. Most suppressed handguns that utilize a tilting lock will fail to cycle properly unless using a Linear Inertial Decoupler (LID) - also known as a Recoil Booster, Muzzle Booster, or Nielson Device.

Suppressor companies won't allow hotlinking to animations on how a LID works, but you can post this link into your browser to see the slide and spring inside the suppressor that allows the barrel to cycle:
https://www.breachbangclear.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/booster-2.gif

Here's a 45 second video showing a shooter firing without a LID, requiring him to manually rack the slide each time, as well as firing with a LID, where the gun cycles on its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOexPK63jx0