By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has launched a grassroots mobilization effort to convince the U.S. Senate it must reform the National Firearms Act (NFA)as part of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.
The Senate Finance Committee adopted key provisions in the reconciliation bill including removing suppressors (“silencers”), short-barreled rifles (SBRs) and short-barreled shotguns (SBSs) from the NFA.
CCRKBA sent out a nationwide alert Wednesday which also calls for elimination of the $200 tax stamp for most items, “ending decades of unconstitutional red tape.”
In letters to the House Committees on Rules and Budget, and to the Republican Senate leadership, scores of people representing gun rights organizations and individual citizens signed on to urge Capitol Hill to adopt the reforms. The letters may be read here and here.
“The Senate Finance Committee’s legislative text, found at finance.senate.gov, incorporates these changes, marking a monumental victory for gun owners,” the CCRKBA alert notes. “However, the battle is not over. Senate leadership must ensure these provisions remain in the final reconciliation bill, and they need to hear from you this week.”
Majority Leader John Thune: (202) 224-2321
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairperson Tim Scott (202) 224-6121
Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (202) 224-6142
According to the alert, signed by CCRKBA Managing Director Andrew Gottlieb, “The reconciliation process allows these reforms to bypass filibuster obstacles, but political pressures could weaken or remove them. We cannot allow decades of unconstitutional NFA restrictions to persist.
“The Hearing Protection Act safeguards hearing health by making suppressors accessible,” he added, “while the SHORT Act ends the arbitrary regulation of SBRs and SBSs. Eliminating NFA taxes removes financial barriers to exercising our constitutional rights. These measures, championed by millions of gun owners, are now within reach.”
In the alert, Gottlieb reminded viewers the Second Amendment is “non-negotiable.”
“Our collective action has brought us closer to dismantling the NFA’s unjust framework,” he said.
