Correction, maybe: It turns out the VP did cast a tie breaker vote (according to some) that was not reported earlier. Any way, it passed.

” ‘We know where you live. … In the dead of a cold winters [sic] night, this year, or next and beyond, there is no knowing what may happen. Your property, your family may be impacted, your cat may get shot. And more. … Your vote for this guy [Trump] is seen as treading on my rights. You tread on me at your peril, motherf-cker. We look forward to visiting in the future.’

That is language from the nasty, vile letter that Pennsylvania voters received through the U.S. mail in October 2024, just prior to the presidential election. What was their crime? They had Trump signs in their yards.

And what did local law enforcement, the Pennsylvania state police, the FBI, the U.S. Justice Department, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service do about this intimidation and threats of violence against voters in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and various Pennsylvania counties?

Apparently, nothing at all.
…”

(note: the above happened during Bidens term. Although the article is specific to those incidents, it was actually pretty common for Trump supporters all over the country to get threats – the Biden admin did nothing about it and in fact facilitated it by doing nothing about it, instead the Biden admin went after parents trying to protect their kids from an insane left-wing school board by speaking out in the meetings and Catholics practicing their religion and children who did not wish to be an imaginary gender. Some of the mentally ill left wing tried to carry out their threats, and attacked Trump supports and their family members and thankfully these victims were able to defend them selves, and shot these left wing attackers with two of them deleted from the gene pool and three more wounded and thus able to rethink their life choices.)

https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/30/law-enforcement-ignored-dire-threats-against-pennsylvania-trump-voters-families-property-and-pets/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_mfQ_4koLA

“Did all of the 2A changes remain in the final version?”

Removing them entirely from the NFA is currently out, but MIGHT get re-added later, before Trump signs it, as I understand it.

Solidly, we have the 200-dollar tax killed, on all but full-auto…

“Free form 1’s? Gonna form 1 all the things.”

A few things, for myself… 😉

I would leave at least one SBR as a pistol so you don’t have to worry about permission slips to cross state lines with it.

The tax on SBRs gone, too? Free form 1’s? Gonna form 1 all the things.

It was a very close butt-clinching vote. Some are saying it was so tense in the senate its a wonder all of them did not have major stress induced heart failure.

The vote in senate passed it out of senate with 51-49. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Rand Paul (R-KY) voted against the bill. All democrats opposed the bill. It was close, Ron Johnson (R-WI) had voted against it in an earlier vote and had he continued to vote against it by joining democrats in the final vote to vote ‘No’ there would have been a 50-50 tie. Vice President Vance was called in and standing by to break that possible tie in which case it would have passed 51-50, but Ron Johnson changed his vote ‘Yes’ to pass the bill so a tie breaker wasn’t needed. There were five who had not yet voted by the time Vance arrived around 8:30’ish PM ET. The final vote was about 11 PM’ish ET.

Democrats have 47 seats in the senate, all the democrats voted against the bill so that gave them 47 votes against the bill – with Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Rand Paul (R-KY) voting against it that gave 49 votes against the bill.

The Republicans have 53 seats in the senate, all republicans voted for it except Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Rand Paul (R-KY) voted against the bill with democrats. This gave 51 votes to pass the bill out of senate and send it to the house.

“Did all of the 2A changes remain in the final version?”

No. The HPA and SHORT were lost, removing suppressors and SBR from NFA were lost but they did remove the $200.00 tax. Its possible HPA and SHORT provisions can be added back in the house in reconciliation conference, and its possible that suppressors and SBR can be removed from the NFA in the house in reconciliation conference – need to wait and see.

When the bill is signed it goes into effect, but signing it does not mean everything in the bill goes into effect right then – it only means the bill becomes ‘law’ in effect. I’m not exactly sure on when whatever in the bill takes effect. There are a couple of provisions (not 2A/gun stuff) that were not going to take effect until the end of 2026, for example, Medicaid work requirements originally slated to start in 2029 were in May moved up to end of 2026 in the BBB but that was in May and its a month later now with changes having been made every day so really its hard to tell right now when anything actually takes effect. My initial understanding was the NFA tax thing would take effect as soon as the bill is signed by Trump, but I don’t know that to be fact yet. In short, I guess we need to wait until it gets through the House to get all the details.