The case revolves around Jamond M. Rush, who was charged with being in possession of an unregistered SBR. He has been convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison “for possessing a firearm that is in common use for lawful purposes.”
As the U.S. Senate begins work on the House-passed reconciliation bill—cheekily dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” gun owners nationwide
“If we doubled it, if we just went to $400, you could sell only half as many and not lose a penny in revenue. If we tripled it, you might actually discourage some sales of silencers. Wouldn’t that be a good thing for us to be doing in this committee?”
There’s a gun bill before Congress where the worst-case scenario is that gun laws stay unchanged. Normally that’s the best-case scenario. In fact, Congress has never passed a law that lessened regulations on gun purchases.
The news for readers here, however, is what was included in the bill. The final version doesn’t just zero out the $200 tax stamp on suppressor purchases, it removes them entirely from regulation under the National Firearms Act.
The Second Amendment unequivocally protects the right to keep and bear arms, and the NFA’s restrictive provisions—originally enacted to combat gang violence nearly a century ago—have long outlived their utility.
“This is not about freedom. It’s about greed. And it’s proof – again – that these politicians don’t care about protecting America. They care about protecting the gun industry’s bottom line.”
“I really want to ask, who asked for this? Was it the assassin lobby?”
What if the average gun owner could sidle up to a SilencerCo kiosk at their local gun store, fill out the Form 4, submit their fingerprints right there, and pay only $5 on top of the cost of the can? And what if they could pick up their silencer the same week?
Ironically, although the dropped federal NFA charge had required the government to argue the braced CZ Scorpion was a rifle, the charge Taranto is still facing under D.C. law required it to argue the same firearm is a handgun.
