Media Seem Alarmed over Trump Tax
Package Inclusion of Gun Regs Reform

From the Associated Press down through PBS and local broadcast media—all using the AP story as their base—the establishment media appears to be having fits over a proposal included in President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" on taxes which would remove noise suppressors and short-barreled rifles and shotguns from regulation under the National Firearms Act (NFA).

TGM did a quick browser search and found several television reports all based on the AP story, which says—among other things—that, "Democrats are fighting to stop the provision, which was unveiled days after two Minnesota state legislators were shot in their homes, as the bill speeds through the Senate."

True enough, as perennial anti-gun Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer of New York declared earlier this month, "Senate Democrats will fight this provision at the parliamentary level and every other level with everything we've got."

The effort to remove sound suppressors from NFA regulation is called the Hearing Protection Act (HPA), since these devices are designed to dramatically lower the decibel level of a muzzle blast. They are not "silencers" which completely eliminate noise, as proponents are scrambling to explain all over social media ... . . . .