Cannibul
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Quanity and access. If they are easy to come by there will be more out there to be stolen or misused.
Might as well ban cars to stop drunk drivers.
Quanity and access. If they are easy to come by there will be more out there to be stolen or misused.
There's still a blanket rule against his lobbying, on any subject.The 2A has nothing to do with Trump's RE business, I don't see any conflict. They don't make (or lose) a dime no matter what the gun laws are now, or could be later.
Quanity and access. If they are easy to come by there will be more out there to be stolen or misused.
This act *should* pass, which in no way indicates that it will pass. It is the ultimate form of common sense gun legislation. Through a single bill we can de-regulate (perhaps de-criminalize, if you will) an item that will:
1) protect shooters and hunters from irreparable hearing damage.
2) Lower the environmental impact of shooting ranges.
3) Do nothing to make firearms more dangerous, or more likely to be used in a crime.
But, despite the great reasons for passing this legislation, I'm still not entirely hopeful that this bill will pass, and I think the old-guard of our own shooting community is a big part of the problem. I can't tell you how many times I've been at a shooting range with one of my suppressed rifles, and had some old codger walk over and start lecturing me on how my item is illegal, and going to land me in federal prison. Half of these guys still don't hear you (probably due to hearing damage) when you explain that it isn't an illegal item. The other half of these guys still walk off muttering about how only an assassin needs a suppressor.
On top of the nonsense I just described, we have always had the media using the assassin angle to justify NFA laws, even though I can't think of a single historical assassination that has ever used a suppressor (this only ever seems to occur in Hollywood movies). We also have the media creating a fairytale about how the noise from a gunshot saves unsuspecting hikers from being shot by hunters (as if there is ANY reason to believe that imagined issue has ANY basis in fact -- because it's an utterly ridiculous argument).
I do believe that our new president doesn't much care what the media thinks, and that's a great thing. But, I think most of the members of congress still care what the media thinks, and that could severely undermine us on this issue.
Nevertheless, I think this bill is as important now as it will ever be. If it doesn't pass now I'm not hopeful that it ever will. We currently have a Republican congress, and a Republican president. If you can't get such a common sense law passed in this environment, you'll never see it happen.
CBO does not do the kind of dynamic scoring that would show an increase in revenue via Pittman-Robertson. But this will not be decided as a revenue measure. The loss of revenue from the tax stamp is a rounding error at most.
Isn't this the same argument for restricting access to guns?Quanity and access. If they are easy to come by there will be more out there to be stolen or misused.
.........and that the onus for it's disappearance gets pined on team D.Don't assume that all Republicans would automatically be for it. I suspect that most just hope that the whole issue goes away.
Isn't this the same argument for restricting access to guns?
- Anti-rights advocates are in complete disarray right now, with basically no support in the legislature and the only thing keeping them from falling apart completely are Bloomberg's deep pockets.The only potentially effective noise control method to reduce students’ or instructors’ noise exposure from gunfire is through the use of noise suppressors that can be attached to the end of the gun barrel. However, some states do not permit civilians to use suppressors on firearms.
European politicians with their draconian gun laws would never dream of "allowing" suppressor use either for fear of a mass shooting event. Nope, never gonna happen.
So does that mean Congress is unlikely to give consideration to the financial benefit of eliminating the tax stamp? (and possibly the job creation that could come about from it?)
If you want it to pass, get to work. Contact your congress critters, the NRA has made it easy! You don't have to be a member to use the site:
https://act.nraila.org/takeaction.aspx?AlertID=1422
TFB is not a credible source of, well..................anything.
There are at least 3 Senate Democrats that might cross over and vote for the bill, offsetting possible Republican defections. Still short of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster. The only hope for the HPA is if it is attached to budget conciliation, or some other must-pass bill.I fear the Senate will be the roadblock. It has a decent chance of making out of the House. Trump would likely sign it considering all his pro-2A talk during the election. The GOP Senate majority, however, is thin, and there are some major RINOs in said chamber.