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The Senate’s top rulemaker has determined the effort to delist silencers, short-barrel rifles and shotguns, and other guns from the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 doesn’t fit within budget reconciliation rules.
Just after midnight on Friday, Senate Budget Committee ranking member Senator Jeff Merkley (D.) announced the NFA provision did not comply with the Byrd Rule. He said it was part of another five provisions of the Republican budget bill the parliamentarian ruled are beyond the scope of what’s allowed in the reconciliation process. That means the provision would need 60 votes to pass.
“We have been successful in removing parts of this bill that hurt families and workers, but the process is not over, and Democrats are continuing to make the case against every provision in this Big, Beautiful Betrayal of a bill that violates Senate rules,” Merkley wrote in a press release.
Senate Parliamentarian Nixes Repeal of NFA Taxes and Registration in Budget Bill – Bearing Arms
And please, do not smack your local Chest Thumper™ whe he says this is a good thing because the only acceptable option is the total repeal of the NFA and proceeds to holler “NO COMPROMISE!”
We ALL want the NFA dead but. They took the cake from us one slice at a time. If we can get it all back at once, great; but if not, I'm willing to take what we can get and play their game, coming back for more immediately and every time. If we can't shoot the NFA execution style, I'll settle for The Death of a Thousand Cuts, as they watch us grind FDR's evil legacy into dust while they wail and gnash their teeth.
A lot of the B^3 provisions have been found unacceptable to the parliamentarian.
Who, I believe, has served for 20 years now and is a Democrat. But is not an elected official.
And strangely there seems to be a near perfect correlation between the Dem causes and those ruled "ineligible" to be cut, modified, etc.
So I'm a little, shall we say, cynical at this point. This is frankly just another front on the Democrat war on America, of which the NFA taxes are honestly just a part.