The U.S. Senate Tuesday passed Donald Trump’s budget bill, which will cost 17 million Americans their health insurance and drive up the cost of care across the board; imperil hospitals and other health providers; reduce and eliminate food assistance for millions of people including children, veterans, and other vulnerable Americans; terminate millions of jobs; spike energy costs; and explode the national debt.
As a bonus giveaway to the gun lobby, it also weakens one of our nation’s most important gun control laws—the National Firearms Act—by eliminating the $200 tax on silencers, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and other dangerous weapons. These weapons have been regulated under the National Firearms Act for nearly 90 years, by laws put in place to protect communities from mob-style assassinations and surprise attacks.
“At a time when public servants are being assassinated and law enforcement is under siege from sniper-style attacks, it is outrageous that they chose to pad gun industry profits over public safety,” said Po Murray, Chairwoman of the Newtown Action Alliance & Newtown Action Alliance Foundation.
For several years, gun manufacturers have promoted suppressors as a promising new profit center, provided they could get rid of the $200 tax.
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