Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights
Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights
Hearing Protection Act and Short Act
In this episode we discuss the current status of the Hearing Protection and Short Acts.
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Welcome to the Live Shoot podcast. I'm Jeff Do, and I've been a dealer for the Life inspired dealers for the last 18 years. This. Anything I might find interesting. So welcome, welcome, welcome. And this is now take three of me trying to record this podcast today. I have had microphone issues and I apologize about the, the quality. As we, as I this, I'll try and get it cleaned up, but we're gonna talk about two pieces of legislation that if we could get through change the way owners their freedoms and their. One is the Hearing Protection Act and the other is Short Act. And these things are, would be able to cut through the ATS red tape, but we'll get to it here in a minute. They're stuck. So let's start with the Hearing Protection Act, the H. So I've been a dealer since 28, 20 2007, and since for a long period time. In fact, 2015 is when the Hearing Protection Act was the first originally introduced. People were asking me, are we ever gonna get suppressors out from under the NFA? And I've always been very hesitant to say yes because they, they just have a bad reputation and it doesn't really do anything. Or these legislatures in terms of. Their votes because us ass for the Second Amendment just have not been loud enough. This bill has been around since 2015. Is. And if you don't know, if you wanna buy a suppressor, you've got to get fingerprints. You've gotta get passport, you've gotta fill out these forms. You gotta pay tax stamp on top of the, the, and then wait for what used to be months. Now it's maybe a month. To get the approval from the a TF for you to have the suppressor, but the HPAs with none of more of this nonsense, they wanna reclassify suppressors As of any other firearm, that would mean you would just go into, get your background check at the gun shop, no tax stamp, no a TF babysitting. It's also also dropped the suppressor tax to. 10% excise taxes, other farms. Clear five that only the main professor body needs a serial number. Not every little part like some of your other, these bureaucrats want. This is about making it easier for hunters and shooter protect their ears without Uncle Sam picking their pockets. Like if said HCA showed up in 2015, it being pushed by US Senator Mike. There are these anti-gun fear monitoring claims. Suppressors turned guns into silence laws and tools, and they kept it stalled. Now fast forward to the hundred 19th Congress of 2025 and is back as HR 4 0 4 and Senate Bill 360 4 reintroduced by representative Ben Klein and Senator Rapo. The American Professors Association as well as the NRA are all in with 38 other house co-sponsors and 28 Senate co-sponsors showing support, but bad news. The 12th H in the house means committee, and it looks like it's been gutted. It looks like they're gonna leave it as part and they gonna remove the tax stamp on suppressors. But if you go and build your own, you will have to but you still have to do fingerprints, register it with the atf. It's a very, very small win, if not even not a win, because with the House and the Senate and President Trump, we ought to be able to clear this through, but. We number call members discontent this and under 16 inches for rifles and 18 inches for shotguns. Get stuck into the nfa. Same deal, two tax paperwork, ATF approval, fingerprints, all that. And the short act wants to do derate, these firearms. Treat them like any other, or rifle or shotgun. No more tax hands, no motor registry. Just background check and you're good to go. Is this well. But the actual practical for home defense maneuverability, even hunting in small pace spaces. The NA rules are relics. From the time when Bureau thought off shotguns were out weapon choice today, they're just another way to punish law Biden Lawing Gun Owners. The short act was introduced and it's a direct challenge that. A P, the HPA, the short act is in trouble. And it's even worse. It's actually been removed from the house wave and mean committee agenda. That's right. Our own Republican control committee yanked it. So what do we do? Call the members of the house Wave and mean committee. The number's 2 0 2 2 2 5 3 6 2 5. And tell. These bills have been around common since bills to protect us. And the problem is we've got politics and propaganda and groups like every town Push that Hollywood myth, that suppressors silence, the fact that they only drop noise to about hundred 20 des thinking like a jackhammer, not ninja. They also claim derailing SPRs would unleash chaos despite law abiding citizens already passing rigorous checks to own them. Meanwhile, some Republicans are supposed to be allies are two spineless to fight for these bills when the media starts, but it's not all been and gloom. We have a chance. We just gotta fight, fight, fight. So people call the house wage committee, it's 2 0 2 2 2 5 3 6 2 5, and tell'em to stop sabotaging our rights. Join in with a fight, get into the battle and tell'em what we need to do. We, that momentum that d OJ has been doing, the things we got our. We've got the executive order on protecting our state rights. This is just an extension of that. So we have gotta fight and we've gotta let them know what these weak people, Republicans, that we aren't going to stand for and that they need to know. American public want to be freedom and so. I.
