Hey, guys. Got some good news. A bill that you’ve been asking for for a long time was just reintroduced into Congress, and it could be fun times with suppressors for all of us. Yesterday, Congressman Ben Kline of Virginia reintroduced the Hearing Protection Act. This legislation reduces the overly burdensome barriers required to purchase a firearm suppressor to ease access for law-abiding citizens simply trying to obtain the hearing protection they need. Now, I do have an issue with this bill, and I will explain it to you shortly, so stay tuned. And if you’re passionate about defending your rights, hit that subscribe button down below now and join this growing Freedom family.

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And there’s some that are missing on there and I’m just throwing this out there. Perhaps maybe they see what I see in this bill, although I don’t know. I haven’t spoken with everybody about this bill yet. Now, Representative Klein said this, Americans who enjoy hunting and should be able to do so safely and legally without facing burdensome government regulations. The Hearing Protection Act will reclassify suppressors, making it easier for law-abiding gun owners to protect their hearing while enjoying recreational activities. It’s time to ensure that our Second Amendment rights are upheld, allowing responsible citizens to enjoy their freedoms without unnecessary obstacles.

Sounds good. Knox Williams, who is the president of the ASA and the executive director said, the Hearing Protection Act is the epitome of common sense legislation. Law-abiding citizens should not have to pay a tax to protect their hearing when they exercise their Second Amendment rights. The American Suppressor Association applauds Rep Klein for his leadership and willingness to fight for the rights of gun owners across the United States. All right, here is the bill. I’ll show it to you. It’s only a couple pages long and then I’ll explain the problem I have with this bill as well.

Here’s page one. And under the short title, this act may be cited as the Hearing Protection Act. Next page, you can see the effective date would be 90 days after the date of enactment of this act, which should be immediate, but we’ll just keep going here. Section three says treatment of certain silencers. Section 5841 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following F, firearm silencers. A person acquiring or possessing a firearm silencer in accordance with Chapter 44 of Title 18 US Code shall be treated as meeting any registration and licensing requirements of the National Firearms Act with respect to such silencer.

Section four, preemption of certain state laws in relation to firearm silencers. Section 927 of Title 18 USC is amended by adding at the end the following, notwithstanding the preceding sentence, a law of a state or a political subdivision of a state that imposes a tax other than a generally applicable sales or use tax on making, transferring, using, possessing or transporting a firearm silencer in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or imposes a marking record keeping or registration requirement with respect to such a firearm silencer shall have no force or effect. Section five, destruction of records.

Not later than 365 days after the date of enactment of this act, the Attorney General shall destroy any registration of a silencer maintained in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record pursuant to Section 5841 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Any application to transfer filed under Section 5812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that identifies the transferee of a silencer and any application to make filed under Section 5822 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that identifies the maker of a silencer. So all the records would be destroyed.

Section six, amendments to Title 18 United States Code. This is where my issue comes in. So follow along and hopefully I’ll get you to understand my issue. So Title 18 USC is amended one in Section 921 alpha by striking paragraph 25 and inserting the following paragraph 25. The terms firearm silencer and firearm muffler mean a any device designed or redesigned made or remade and intended to silence, muffle, or diminish the auditory report of a portable firearm and to be attached to a portable firearm directly or through a mount, adapter, or other device that is not a firearm silencer or firearm muffler or B the outer tube or other single part of any device that one provides the primary housing or is the primary structure for internal sound reduction components designed or redesigned made or remade and intended to silence, muffle, or diminish the auditory report of a portable firearm and to attaches to any portable firearm directly or through a mount, adapter, or other device that is not a firearm silencer or firearm muffler.

And that’s where my problem lies in that last part that I read to you. It makes the tube a suppressor under this new definition. So if you have any hope of form one-ing, meaning you want to make your own suppressor, just having a tube that you would like to make into a suppressor and thus submit your form one, that would say you already are in possession of a suppressor. So because you didn’t buy it through an FFL and thus have your background check completed, you would be illegally possessing that tube suppressor.

That’s an interesting way that this has been written. Now, does Ben Klein understand what he wrote there? I have to probably say yes, he does, because this is probably a way, again, this is just, I haven’t talked to Klein or anybody in his office yet, I’ll probably call them this afternoon, but this is probably a way for Congress or for Ben Klein to get more people in Congress to agree with this bill, especially if and when it goes to the Senate to attempt to get seven Democrat senators to sign on, because this would essentially make solvent traps illegal.

They would not be included in the definition of firearm suppressor or firearm muffler. The tube is the issue, not the baffles or the entire thing together, the tube. So if you have an old-school maglite that’s threaded on both ends of that tube, and you want to, in theory, the second you think that you want to turn that into a suppressor, then you just broke this. If it becomes a law, you just broke the law. So that’s my problem with it. Now, let me know what you think down below. Seriously, in the comments, what do you think of that? It would basically get rid of form one-ing something, because you would have to have the parts before you form one it, or do they want you to form one it before you have the parts, and you can’t do that, because you need to tell them the…

So anyway, does the bill have a real chance to become a law? Let’s discuss that. Will it pass the House? It should. It should. But I’m not… This bill, I think it needs to be amended. Once it’s submitted, a bill can be amended, like they can change a couple things in it. That needs to be amended out in my own personal opinion. We still need seven Democrats to overcome the filibuster in the Senate. And while I do think some Democrats are open to this bill, because you’re trying to protect your own hearing, the big question is, can we get seven of them? And if you have a couple…

This is the way politics works, guys. If you have a couple people in the minority party that are acceptable to a bill, they’re not putting their necks out on the line unless they know they have enough to pass the damn thing. So unless you get seven to ten, at least seven, where they know it’s going to pass, I don’t think anybody puts their neck out, and that’s a big problem. And that’s where the people come in with some pressure. Now does the president, will President Trump sign this into law? That to me is another big question, because in his previous presidency, Donald Trump did say he was not a fan of suppressors.

You’ll also remember, hopefully, that the last time that this bill had enough votes to pass both chambers of Congress, a horrific event happened within hours of the vote to pass the bill. The Republican baseball practice shooting was one of them, and there was a second time as well. And each time it happened, the bill was tabled for obvious reasons. So keep that in mind. Keep that in mind. If you want this bill to stand a chance, you absolutely… We need a ton of pressure applied to our representatives right out of the box. And then our senators, once the House passes it.

That’s on us, every one of us. Don’t care what state you live in, put some pressure on them. Don’t want to hear, I live in Massachusetts, they’re never going to put pressure on them. Stop being a defeatist, even if they don’t agree with you and are going to vote against it anyway. Put pressure on your employee. Call 202-224-3121 and call it often. That’s the switchboard for the United States Capitol. You can say, hey, listen, I would like to speak to my member in the House of Representatives, my representative. They’ll say, okay, where do you live? You give them your address, they punch it in, tells them exactly who your rep is, they’ll transfer you over to their office.

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