It’s Time to Pull the Plug on the Silencer Scam
There is no justification — constitutional, moral, or practical — for treating firearm suppressors, also known as “silencers,” as if they were machine guns or explosives. And yet, under the despotic dictates of the National Firearms Act (NFA), these hearing-saving devices are shackled by federal red tape, absurdly treated as instruments of mass destruction.
On May 21, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) took a bold and praiseworthy stand by calling on Congress to tear down this indefensible wall of bureaucratic tyranny. In a letter addressed to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), SAF, joined by its partners in liberty, demanded that Congress amend the current budget reconciliation bill (aka Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”) to include Section 2 of the Hearing Protection Act (HPA) — a simple and sensible provision that would treat suppressors as long guns under the law.
Let that sink in — not legalize some dangerous new class of weapons, not arm felons or cartels, but merely remove suppressors from the draconian overreach of the NFA and regulate them the same way rifles and shotguns are regulated today. Purchasers would still undergo background checks, would still buy from licensed dealers, and would still be subject to the same unconstitutional vetting they already endure when purchasing a firearm.
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