Posted on 10/03/2017 11:23:21 AM PDT by servo1969
Two days after an attacker opened fire on concert goers in Las Vegas, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc) announced he was shelving legislation to deregulate suppressors.
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Ryan has now shelved the Hearing Protection Act, which was introduced into Congress on January 9; it is the legislation containing suppressor deregulation. The Act does not legalize suppressors–as they are already legal–rather, it removes the burdensome process for acquiring them and erases the federal tax that must be paid in order to receive permission to posses one.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says NRA-backed bill to ease regulations on gun silencers is shelved indefinitely https://t.co/hfDb8elAl6 pic.twitter.com/zsdMo3OOEM— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) October 3, 2017
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No, it halts innovation. Think about the possibility of an active muffler using 22lr blanks to cancel out the ear wrecking noise.
Great for use in home defense guns.
You are RIGHT!
Gunz don’t need attenuators, my ears do.
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