A GOP domestic policy bill, over 1,000 pages long, contains a provision that aims to weaken the long-established firearms law enacted by the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934. This would remove the $200 tax on suppressors and other specific firearms, and eliminate registration requirements. Although Republicans argue it alleviates tax burdens on Second Amendment rights, experts warn it could compromise public safety by dismantling effective regulations originally established to combat gang violence during the Prohibition era. Gun rights advocates' influence is evident in the bill's provisions, dismissing historical context for these regulations.
This bill illustrates the muscle of the gun rights people in Congress to pull out provisions that have been in place for 90 years while sort of turning a blind eye to the history of why these things were restricted in the first place.
Clyde, a vocal opponent of gun control, called the taxes in the NFA 'draconian' during a May 21 House debate on the tax and spending bill.
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