Hey everybody, I’ve got a different kind of video today. There’s whispers in Washington DC of a company within our community, a Second Amendment-related company that is actively lobbying against the Hearing Protection Act. They were doing this, again, this is what I’m being told, okay? And a lot of these things happen behind closed doors and a lot of people are like off the record tell you things or they tell you on a condition of anonymity. But sources are saying that this company was dealing directly with Representative David Kustoff in the House Ways and Means community to not take suppressors out of the NFA.

Totally cool with removing the $200 tax stamp, putting it down to zero, but keeping them on the NFA, which is angering gun owners across the country. This is the closest we’ve come in my generation in 49 and 3 quarter years of ever getting suppressors off of the NFA to start to dismantle the NFA piece by piece. Yes, I’m frustrated just like you are that the short act didn’t make it through. More to come on that later. We’re focusing here on the Hearing Protection Act. So there’s a company that’s been actively working against us here. And now I’m hearing that they’re actively lobbying members of the Senate.

Follow me here. I got a lot of notes. I’ve done a lot of research on this. I’ve been working with other people who you’re going to hear videos from as well. And the goal is to not have companies within our community try to destroy the community or keep things as a status quo for financial gain. So that company from what I’m hearing is SilenceRCentral. SilenceRCentral, one of the biggest distributors and manufacturers of suppressors in the country. Their model you may be familiar with is they will ship it right to your door, right? That’s their model. And they can only do that if the NFA remain these items remain in the NFA.

If they’re out of the NFA and simply a gun control act item, meaning you go to the store and there’s one in the case. I want that one, $44.73, and then Bob’s your uncle, then they can’t do it. It’s not their business model. It’s not how they’re set up. And it’s frustrating, right? Before I go too far down and get off my soapbox here, I’m going to thank a company that I know stands for freedom and fights the ATF with their own dollars. And that’s CMMG, Booneville, Missouri. They make phenomenal things that I can’t even say because of how a communist like this platform is here.

But they have supported this this channel for years. They have been supportive of my family and that means a lot to me. And the owners have, like I said, taken money out of their pockets and sued the ATF for the pistol brace rule. So, CMMG in Booneville, Missouri, thank you for your support. Can’t do it without you. And I love that you have code GNG10. It’s awesome. So, excuse me, back to this. So, what’s the process now? People don’t really understand this process. House Ways and Means Committee, they have passed this budget bill. It’s the big, beautiful bill that you heard Trump say all the time.

And there’s good things in this bill. There’s phenomenal things in this bill, like no tax on overtime, no tax on tips, and the like. It’s really good tax fixes, I guess, for us as a nation. But there’s one thing in there that we could have had and the Republicans have gone in and just, I’ll say it, they fucked it up. So, David Kustoff, Tennessee, West Tennessee, Republican, and he’s on his warpath now trying to save his name. I’m a pro-gun Republican, have been from the start and I don’t want these things in the NFA, but I had the chance to and I screwed it up.

And the word is, is because these certain people were in his ear and Silencer Central is what I’m hearing. Now, this is allegedly what they’ve done. They’ve allegedly gone through and actively lobbied against this. Now, speaking of lobbying, we did a lot of homework and saw some of the things that Silencer Central has been lobbying for because these are all things that you have to report federally and go right on the Senate’s website. You can see how people lobbyists their lobbying disclosure acts. And some of these things I’ll say up front may be associated with the Pittman-Robertson Act, which is where money goes from NFA items and the excise tax on guns and ammo and is used on wildlife conservation and the like.

So, I don’t know if these have anything to do with it, but I’m just going to say what they are because it’s just odd, the timing of them. On January 14th of 2025, Silencer Central paid $50,000 to lobby for the, I’m sorry, the specific lobbying thing was the issue is to quote, develop and support suppressor tax stamp conservation legislation. It’s kind of vague. That’s all it says. But the way it says it is kind of odd, right? Develop and support suppressor tax stamp conservation legislation. Are they conserving the tax stamp or is it for conservation of wildlife, etc? Don’t know, but they hired the Natural Resource Results LLC firm to do that.

And going down that rabbit hole, they do a lot of stuff with other wildlife conservation companies who pay them to lobby on Capitol Hill. So, that may be just something good. But again, the timing is odd. On January 14th, 2025, $50,000. The very next day, very next day, H.R. 404 was submitted in the House. It was introduced by, we all know, Ben Klein. And that was the following day. So, just the timing. They’re lobbying for that tax stamp conservation legislation. Next day, the bill to remove suppressors from the NFA and destroy the tax stamp is submitted.

It could just be circumstantial timing, whatever. But then, I just pulled a couple of these. There’s a lot of them. Like on April 14th of 2025, Silence of Central hired, again, Natural Resource Results LLC dropped another $50,000. The lobbying issue on this one was support protection of firearm noise reduction commerce. It sounds like they want to conserve and protect their business model. Firearms, noise protection, that’s a suppressor, commerce, that’s sale. Don’t know, but another $50,000 on April 14th. Is this the reason that they’re allegedly lobbying in the House or did lobby in the House to keep items on the NFA? And now, lobbying the Senate because this is going to the Senate Ways and Means Committee shortly, maybe in about a week, to get in front of this bill and have them on the same mindset to like, No, we don’t want this to get off the NFA because word is, word is, the representatives and the senators are watching what we’re doing.

The reaction that we’ve had and how we’re lighting up the phone calls, lighting up X, Twitter, that’s been huge. And letting them know, you screwed up. Like, this is not what we want. We want the Hearing Protection Act. And you even have some representatives and some senators who have gone out on the ledge saying, this is wrong. This needs to come off the NFA. This is a violation of the Second Amendment. So they see this stuff because when they feel the heat, they see the light. So maybe they’re trying, you know, maybe allegedly, Silence or Central right now is over in the Senate House and Ways and Means Committee and already working those people to maybe keep things status quo to protect their business model.

Maybe don’t know. You tell me I’m just putting this stuff out there because it just seems odd. I’ll leave it like that. So then to this, that was what, April 14th and then two days prior, April 12th, they dropped 5K to RBW Group LLC. And the issue is regulation of suppressor purchases, Hearing Protection Act. So they’re lobbying, at least in this form, what it says, the registration or the lobbying disclosure is the issue is regulation of suppressor purchases, Hearing Protection Act. Doesn’t say if they’re for the Hearing Protection Act or against it, but they’re paid somebody to lobby.

Again, quote, regulation of suppressor purchases, Hearing Protection Act doesn’t say removal of suppressors from the NFA. It’s just, I know, circumstantial evidence, but usually when there’s smoke, there’s fire. And, you know, it’s just odd that we have companies or people in the industry who represent, you know, being a Second Amendment advocate for decades or their company, Second Amendment Strong, fighting to keep one of the worst infringements we’ve ever had, the National Firearms Act, keep it alive. You know, it’s just weird. So I do know that there have been several attempts to seek comment from Silencer Central, both the owner and the person who is their media contact now.

And as of recording this, ghosts, crickets. They did respond, Silencer Central, to a challenge I put out on my Twitter account, X. Here’s the post here where I basically say that this letter that GOA put out was phenomenal, saying how the Senate Ways and Means Committee let us down. And there’s companies that put their name to it, saying we want the Hearing Protection Act in its full form to be passed, meaning get rid of it. And Silencer Shop is on there. You know, of course, all the companies in the world aren’t going to jump on this letter immediately.

Timing is one thing, etc. But Silencer Shop is on there. And I know Silencer Co has been instrumental working with gun owners of America, lobbying for the Hearing Protection Act to pass the full version of it, including Section 2, which is removing suppressors from the NFA. I’d like to see more people on that. That’s what it was. And I said, you know, feel free to tag your favorite can company so that they can come on here and respond to how they feel about this. And here’s the quote from Silencer Central. You can see it here. They said, quote, as the nation’s largest online retailer of suppressors, we’re also one of the largest manufacturers.

Our commitment to our customers is unwavering and we support any effort that reduces barriers to make suppressor ownership more accessible. So that’s kind of vague, right? More accessible, meaning you don’t have to pay the extra 200 bucks, but are they actively lobbying to keep their business model alive? That’s what we need to know. And I’m hoping that they’ll come out and make a statement and let us know because I’m not the first person who’s heard this. I’ve been hearing their name come up for almost two full weeks now. I was told that they were working directly with David Kustoff to do what he did to say the same things that he did to keep that suppressor NFA logjam a reality.

So what happens next? All right. So it’s going to go to a budgetary and rules committee in the House. It’s going to pass. It’ll go to the floor for a full House vote. It’s going to pass and then it’s going to go to the Senate. And there will be, from what I’m told, there will be a concerted effort to change the wording, to reinstitute section two of the Hearing Protection Act. And a lot of people have been responding. You know, you get a lot of people who just want they just take the negative look on everything like we’ve been losing for so long.

We’re never going to get this. You guys are, you know, you guys are crazy to think it will. Because this is a budgetary item, it is called reconciliation, which means that it’s a simple majority vote. We do not have to worry about the 60 vote filibuster, you know, to get cloture to defeat the filibuster. So this will pass with a mere 51 votes in the Senate. And it appears as though that’s going to happen. So whatever version comes out and is voted on, it appears it’s going to happen. And word from the administration is, is whatever version hits the desk, it’s getting signed.

So this is our chance to have Hearing Protection Act, H.R. 404, the full version of it, passed the House, passed the Senate. And then have it signed by the executive, the president. This is something that’s absolutely doable. And I’ll tell you that I have been told by numerous people on Capitol Hill that our pressure, our phone calls are working. We have offices that have been getting so many phone calls that they don’t answer the phone, that they turn it off, that they turn it, you know, turn it on to the messages. Keep calling. Call your representatives as well.

You can go to the switchboard. It’s area code 202-224-3121. Call your, call your Congress member. You have one representative for your district and call your U.S. senators. You have two for your state. Hit them on Twitter. I know this is a long video, but there’s a lot of information here that I’ve been digging. And we shouldn’t have a company in our midst that is actively working against us. So my hope is that everything I’m hearing, every person that’s telling us this information for some reason, drank Kool-Aid that made them lie. That’s the hope. But I don’t think that’s the case because some of these people are very, very, very connected and plugged in.

So if this is true, my hope is that Silence or Central, if it’s true, stops it. I hope they come out and make a statement. And, you know, where it is when their hint came up with a couple of videos last week, they stopped, allegedly, they stopped their activity in the House Ways and Means Committee. So my hope is that it stops now. And we fix this because this is our chance in this generation, guys and gals. Even if you think it can’t happen, if you want to stay on that negative, that boat that’s just full of negativity, I ask you today, you know, have a nice day.

Have a good streak and just try to help we the people because we’re all in this together. We all don’t have to believe the same thing, but we all should have the same goal. And that’s ultimate freedom and ultimate liberty. And any chance we get to strike down an infringement, we should all jump together and work together. So get on it. Be safe. Stay vigilant. Carry a gun to keep you, your friends, your family, your community safe. Sorry, it’s a long winded one, but there’s a lot of stuff I had to say, a lot of notes I had to take.

And I just hope you run with it, guys and gals. Run with it. Take care. See you in the next one. [tr:trw].

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