Harold Hutchison
Media Reporter
January 14, 2026 7:54 PM ET
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut introduced an amendment to an appropriations bill Monday seeking to impose a massive tax increase on suppressors and certain firearms.
The reconciliation bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in July contained provisions that reduced the taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and guns described as “any other weapon” to $0 after the Senate Parliamentarian struck language that removed those items from any coverage of the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA). Murphy’s amendment, known as SA 4159, would restore the taxes and increase them to $4,709 per item.
“This is actually not the first time that Sen. Chris Murphy has proposed this tyrannical tax hike,” Gun Owners of America Federal Director Aidan Johnston told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “His goal with this amendment is to price Americans out of their ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
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