A Quick Note on the Hearing Protection Act
BY Herschel Smith
1 week, 3 days ago
It’s dead. Allowed to be killed by the cowardly senator John Thune because of a parliamentary trick.
So much for honesty and integrity in politics. They hate you. The democrats hate you, and the republicans hate you.
@JDVance @dcodrea @StephenGutowski @GunOwners @gunpolicy @Stambo2A @2Aupdates @SenJohnThune
No. Removal of the $200 tax for suppressors is not the "next best thing" to removal from the NFA. It is an abject failure and the GOP has lost my support in perpetuity. I don't want to…
— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) June 28, 2025
On June 29, 2025 at 8:11 am, Pat H. Bowman said:
At the risk of sounding black-pilled, one really can’t be surprised about this. The republicucks haven’t done anything useful in decades. And just like the medical industrial complex, for the gun lobby, there’s no money in fixing the problems, but there is an awful lot to be made in prolonging it. If one is continually surprised at what is happening, it’s time to change your paradigm.
On June 29, 2025 at 8:26 am, Frank Nobody said:
I agree about the registration requirement being what matters, and that the republicans are spineless and worthless.
But… there is a case to be made that “if we do it”, the dims will undo it the first chance they get– and maybe add taxes on semis and who knows what else. I’d still rather have them off NFA, even if temporarily, and have potentially millions more motivated voters on “our” side, should the dims try to undo it.
On the other hand… can the registration requirement survive without the tax? Like with the obamacare 1095 IRS nonsense… there’s no penalty, but employers still have to send out the dang forms. What’s that costing the taxpayer every year? How many trees that does eat up, for Barry’s hubris? A good target for DOGE, but it will take an act of congress to eliminate that. Still… having the penalty zeroed out allows me to criticize and poke fun at the foolishness… maybe getting SBRs and suppressors into that same legal state would be helpful, if we can’t just get the NFA abomination repealed outright.
On June 29, 2025 at 11:34 am, MTHead said:
J.D. Vance is the president of the senate and can overrule the communist twat and her “advisory position”, at will.
It’s been done before.
The NFA was a “TAX” congress used as a backdoor trick to get rid of something they didn’t like. So, removing it’s provisions is removing a tax. That’s gotten far to many Americans murdered.
It’s all reconciliation.
Communists gave us abortion and school integration 50 years ago. Republicans can’t even buck the communist media today.
Worse than worthless.
On June 29, 2025 at 12:26 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@MTHead
Re: “Communists gave us abortion and school integration 50 years ago. Republicans can’t even buck the communist media today. Worse than worthless.”
Yes, that’s right – because the existence of the GOP fools millions upon millions of “normies” that the system works and someone is representing them (“normies” being “normal conservatives” or mainstream GOP voters). In reality, the so-called bicameral system with two distinct parties is a sham, a hoax, a Potemkin Village.
The late Dr. Angelo Codevilla, former USN intelligence officer and renowned political scientist, wrote a terrific little book about twenty years ago, called “The Ruling Class.” In it, he laid out the thesis that the real distinction between groups within American public life isn’t between the D’s and the R’s – but between what he termed the Ruling Class and the Country Class.
In brief, Codevilla’s belief was that when push came to shove, there wasn’t much difference between establishment Republicans and Democrats. They amounted to two sides of the same corrupt coin. The two wings of the Uni-party.
What mattered was whether or not someone was/is a member of the ruling class, not what party affiliation they took. The country class was everyone else out in everyday ordinary America.
“The business of government is government – and business is good!”
Governments seldom surrender power, money or influence willingly or easily. That goes for Republican ones and Democrat ones alike. Thune’s little maneuver just reaffirms that truth.
Politics still matters, but these days mostly at the local and state level. The federal process may be too far gone to fix. Trump may slow down some of what is coming, but it is already clear that he isn’t going to be able to defeat the deep state.
On June 29, 2025 at 1:08 pm, scott s. said:
While the presiding officer can make a ruling, the legislation is subject to “points of order” and the body can waive a point of order, but typically requires a three-fifths vote of sworn members (60).
If there is no precedent then the body can, in effect, create new precedent but you have to be mindful of the effect of creating new precedent in the future.
On June 29, 2025 at 2:59 pm, MTHead said:
@ Georgia, Yup, spot on.
This is the congressional intent of ’34 NFA.
” To provide for the taxation of manufacturers, importers, and dealers in certain
firearms and machine guns, to tax the sale or other disposal of such weapons,
and to restrict importation and regulate interstate transportation thereof.”
And no one in the gun lobby ever attacked this as a tax on a right??????
Imagine them breaking into your house because you didn’t pay your 4th amendment tax?
Or having a confession beat out of you, then used against you in court because you didn’t pay your 5th. amendment tax?
The bill of rights amends the constitutional powers given to congress, president, and anyone else that holds office, or is appointed to public office.
That especially includes the power of taxation.
This is so basic it’s frightening.
And “Miller” is as good as we can get out of the gun lobby?????
As for the senate politburotarian?
Vance and Thune should be prison shanking that crap.
On June 29, 2025 at 4:01 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@scott s.,
That’s fine with me. I believe in neither the filibuster nor 2/3 vote. Neither complies with Robert’s Rules of Order and both are made up, fabricated rules by the senate, who is the worst deliberating body mankind has ever known. Both have also prevented good law.
Just like the notion that a single senator can “card” a judicial appointee and stop a nomination in its tracks.
Just like the notion of a universal injunction by district judges.
On June 29, 2025 at 4:29 pm, Joe Blow said:
That scene with Charlie Brown and the football comes to mind right about now….
On June 29, 2025 at 4:29 pm, Plague Monk said:
At lunch today after church, several of the other men in our group tried to argue that while this is a disappointment, the alternative is voting Democratic or staying home on Selection Day.
I’m at the point now that I’m probably going to vote for the Dems from here on out. As I told the others, let’s just get the collapse over and done with…
On July 2, 2025 at 2:21 pm, J J said:
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is how you choose to spell communists.
On July 2, 2025 at 5:45 pm, Latigo Morgan said:
Man, this stuff is getting to be so predictable and tiresome. I’m just so sick and tired of it. I was talked in to voting this last election, as I had no intention of voting for moral degenerates to rule over me and mine (and Trump is a moral degenerate, just not as degenerate as the alternatives were). I’m done. I’m one man. Will my absence be noted at the polls? Probably not, but I have to live with myself and face my God in the end. What will my answer to Him be when he asks me why I voted for such a man? That he was better than the alternative?