Hearing Protection Act Language Incorporated Into Comprehensive Sportsmens Package

[Elderberry]

Ammoland  Posted on June 19, 2017 by Knox Williams

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Soon the Federal Lands Subcommittee will hear a discussion draft of the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act.

The SHARE Act, which is being championed in a bipartisan manner by Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) Co-Chairs Representative Jeff Duncan (R-SC), and Representative Gene Green (D-TX), is a comprehensive package that covers a wide range of hunting, fishing, and outdoor related issues. Included in the legislation is Title XVII, a strengthened version of the Hearing Protection Act.

Since the re-introduction of the Hearing Protection Act by Rep. Duncan and Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) in January (H.R. 367, S. 59) the American Suppressor Association (ASA) has met with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on multiple occasions to discuss technical amendments to the language. As a result, we were able to create several technical amendments that were incorporated into the current draft of the SHARE Act. These include:

    1702: Removing suppressors from the National Firearms Act, subjecting them to the same instant NICS background check as long guns, and issuing a refundable tax credit to anyone who has purchased a suppressor since the HPA’s original date of introduction
    1703: Ensuring that suppressors will remain legal in all 42 states where they are currently legal, after suppressors are removed from the National Firearms Act
    1704: Preempting states from levying taxes or registration requirements on suppressors. However, this will not make suppressors legal in any state where state law currently prohibits them.
    1705: Granting the ATF 365 days to destroy all suppressor related records from the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record (NFRTR)
    1706: Developing a “keystone part” definition, and requiring that such keystone part is serialized on every suppressor. This will ensure that individual suppressor parts, like pistons and endcaps, will not require serialization.
    1707: Imposing a 10% Pittman-Robertson excise tax on the manufacture of each new suppressor, a tax that is currently imposed on all Title I firearms

More: https://www.ammoland.com/2017/06/hearing-protection-act-language-incorporated-into-comprehensive-sportsmens-package/

[txradioguy]

The only part of that I don't trust is the ATF destroying records of people that own suppressors.

[thackney]

The only part of that I don't trust is the ATF destroying records of people that own suppressors.

What would you suggest in place of that language in the bill?

[txradioguy]

What would you suggest in place of that language in the bill?

I  don't think there's any better language....my comment was just my skepticism about trusting the Government to destroy any records it has already on someone regardless of what they promise or what the law says.

[Smokin Joe]

I  don't think there's any better language....my comment was just my skepticism about trusting the Government to destroy any records it has already on someone regardless of what they promise or what the law says.

Yeah, we went through that with the early NICS data.