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The Hearing Protection Act has been re-introduced in 2025. The act removes silencers/gun mufflers from the National Firearms Act and places them in the same category as rifles and shotguns. The introduced act does this by adding silencers/gun mufflers to applicable laws that now cover firearms, more specifically, rifles and shotguns, and removing them from the National Firearms Act.Hearing Protection Act has Of 2025In Title 18, United States Code, in section 922(b) —(A) in paragraph (1), by striking “shotgun or rifle” the first place it appears and inserting “shotgun, rifle, firearms silencer or firearm muffler”; and(B) in paragraph (3) by...

I recently had the pleasure of touring the Utah facility where Silencerco and SWR sound suppressors for firearms are manufactured. I toured my first arms plant in the late 1960s and many since, and I’ve never seen a manufacturing facility cleaner or more modern than this one. Their approach to their product is just as clean and modern. They want to make silencers more readily available to law-abiding citizens. I for one have no problem with that at all. Before Silencerco absorbed SWR, those companies joined two other firms to create the American Silencer Association. Most of the general public,...

If nothing else Tom Daschle can start an autoparts business. He already has a muffler in his inventory. Please provide pics and other suggestions.

Saturday, November 9, 2002; Page A04 Rejecting critics' suggestions that Democrats lost the battle for Congress because they had the wrong message -- or no message at all, Senate Democratic Leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.) said yesterday it was really just a failure of communication. Democrats were effective in pointing out deficiencies in the Bush administration's economic policies but less successful when it came to selling their own strategies, Daschle said at his first press briefing since Democrats lost the Senate and the GOP solidified its hold on the House in Tuesday's elections. "It isn't for lack of a strategy,"...

<p>We need immediate and real solutions to the economic challenges we face. But President Bush and House Republicans are, instead, planning more corporate and special-interest tax breaks for 2003 without even addressing the nation's needs.</p> <p>In the 1990s, Democrats proved that sensible, bipartisan action could help unleash the potential of the American people. Today, in the face of rising economic challenges, we need to take a page from what has worked, act on a bipartisan basis and restore economic growth while promoting fiscal responsibility over the long term.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said Friday that President Bush was responsible for a "precipitous drop" in America's international stature and for an economy falling apart.</p> <p>Democrats will emphasize the country's weakened economy in the two weeks leading up to the elections for control of Congress, Daschle said.</p>

Polls indicate that Democrats have a chance to exploit the public's economic worries in the election campaign, but there's reason to doubt that they are doing so effectively. Speeches on the economy by Congress' two top Democrats on Tuesday got limited publicity and failed to deal with the economy's two most urgent problems - a scary stock market and falling capital investment. House Republicans were planning to push through measures to encourage investment, and President Bush probably will use the Senate's failure to pass them as part of his election-year economic defense. Bush also may make a speech on...