GOP-Controlled Senate Reduces Suppressor, Short-Barrel Rifle Tax to Zero in BBB
The GOP-controlled Senate added language to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) reducing the $200 tax on suppressors and short-barrel firearms to zero.
The language is on page 491 of the BBB.
On Saturday the NRA posted to X: “The Senate has released final bill text of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill, which reduces the making and transfer tax to $0 for suppressors and short-barreled firearms.”
The National Association for Gun Rights noted that although the tax is removed, “NFA registration is still required.” (Earlier language in the Senate BBB completely removed suppressors and short-barrel rifles from NFA taxation and registration, but Breitbart News reported that the Senate’s parliamentarian rejected the inclusion of that language.)
Breitbart News spoke with the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms chairman, Alan Gottlieb, who commented on the new language, saying, “We are happy to get rid of the tax, even though it is not the total solution we wanted.”
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