Hearing Protection Act H.R.367

The Hearing Protection Act was introduced in the House on January 9, 2017. The measure is designed to remove suppressors from the purview of the National Firearms Act (1934). The Hearing Protection Act is not about making suppressors legal, as they are already legal in over 40 states. Rather, the Hearing Protection Act would simply make the devices less difficult for law-abiding citizens to acquire. The Act would accomplish this by removing the requirements that suppressor purchasers submit fingerprints and photographs of themselves, and would also remove the registration requirement and $200 federal tax for suppressor owners. The Hearing Protection Act was days away from a vote on House floor in early October but Speaker Ryan shelved the bill, providing no insight into when he might allow the measure to come up for a vote.

The bill was shelved politically due to the two mass shootings.
Alexandria, Virginia, shooting that critically wounded Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA). Scalise returned to work just 48 hours before the Las Vegas shooting. Where Stephen Paddock killed 58 and injured 851 more. No suppressors were used in either of these crimes.

It's a pipe dream.

leadslinger972 said:

It's a pipe dream.

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Sometimes even pipe dreams come true...

Never happen

Wolf

We can make it happen if we ignore the defeatist attitudes.

Mike

RaleighReloader said:

We can make it happen if we ignore the defeatist attitudes.

Mike

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After sitting down with one of the largest NFA dealers in the state, who is also "in the know" when it comes to firearm politics, and having him tell me it isn't gonna happen and why... It ain't gonna happen.

And it's not because there is a lack of support.

First, that bill is from last year's congressional session and is dead. The bill would have to be reintroduced this congress session.

Second, we just had ANOTHER school shooting. This time in South Florida (Broward County), early reports say 16 killed. With crap like this we'll be lucky to keep what we have.

Actually, I take it back ... with the squishes we have for politicians right now, you're right that we'll be lucky to retain the rights that we already have.

I said it before and I'll say it again: trusting Trump & Co. with our gun rights is about as insane as trusting Hillary & Co. with our gun rights. They'll both sell us out to the highest bidder (Michael Bloomberg?) at the earliest opportunity. The only way to change that tide is to rise up (as gun owners did in 2013) and remind our politicians, with regularity, that we're a much larger voting bloc than they imagine we are, and that we will happily take our votes elsewhere if they get soft.

Mike

If we want this, us 2A advocates must be the sergeants with a pike at the back of our elected representatives should their resolve to represent us falter.

Has the HPA or a similar bill been introduced in this years congress? I haven't been able to find one.