Hearing Protection Act and Short Act

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In this episode we discuss the current status of the Hearing Protection and Short Acts.

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Episode Transcript

(00:15):
Welcome to the Live Shootpodcast.
I'm Jeff Do, and I've been adealer for the Life inspired
dealers for the last 18 years.
This.
Anything I might findinteresting.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
And this is now take three of metrying to record this podcast
today.

(00:35):
I have had microphone issues andI apologize about the, the
quality.
As we, as I this, I'll try andget it cleaned up, but we're
gonna talk about two pieces oflegislation that if we could get
through change the way ownerstheir freedoms and their.
One is the Hearing ProtectionAct and the other is Short Act.

(00:58):
And these things are, would beable to cut through the ATS red
tape, but we'll get to it herein a minute.
They're stuck.
So let's start with the HearingProtection Act, the H.
So I've been a dealer since 28,20 2007, and since for a long
period time.
In fact, 2015 is when theHearing Protection Act was the
first originally introduced.
People were asking me, are weever gonna get suppressors out

(01:21):
from under the NFA?
And I've always been veryhesitant to say yes because
they, they just have a badreputation and it doesn't really
do anything.
Or these legislatures in termsof.
Their votes because us ass forthe Second Amendment just have
not been loud enough.
This bill has been around since2015.

(01:44):
Is.
And if you don't know, if youwanna buy a suppressor, you've
got to get fingerprints.
You've gotta get passport,you've gotta fill out these
forms.
You gotta pay tax stamp on topof the, the, and then wait for
what used to be months.
Now it's maybe a month.
To get the approval from the aTF for you to have the

(02:06):
suppressor, but the HPAs withnone of more of this nonsense,
they wanna reclassifysuppressors As of any other
firearm, that would mean youwould just go into, get your
background check at the gunshop, no tax stamp, no a TF
babysitting.
It's also also dropped thesuppressor tax to.
10% excise taxes, other farms.
Clear five that only the mainprofessor body needs a serial

(02:29):
number.
Not every little part like someof your other, these bureaucrats
want.
This is about making it easierfor hunters and shooter protect
their ears without Uncle Sampicking their pockets.
Like if said HCA showed up in2015, it being pushed by US
Senator Mike.

(02:54):
There are these anti-gun fearmonitoring claims.
Suppressors turned guns intosilence laws and tools, and they
kept it stalled.
Now fast forward to the hundred19th Congress of 2025 and is
back as HR 4 0 4 and Senate Bill360 4 reintroduced by
representative Ben Klein andSenator Rapo.
The American ProfessorsAssociation as well as the NRA

(03:16):
are all in with 38 other houseco-sponsors and 28 Senate
co-sponsors showing support, butbad news.
The 12th H in the house meanscommittee, and it looks like
it's been gutted.
It looks like they're gonnaleave it as part and they gonna
remove the tax stamp onsuppressors.

(03:38):
But if you go and build yourown, you will have to but you
still have to do fingerprints,register it with the atf.
It's a very, very small win, ifnot even not a win, because with
the House and the Senate andPresident Trump, we ought to be
able to clear this through, but.

(03:59):
We number call membersdiscontent this and under 16
inches for rifles and 18 inchesfor shotguns.
Get stuck into the nfa.
Same deal, two tax paperwork,ATF approval, fingerprints, all

(04:23):
that.
And the short act wants to doderate, these firearms.
Treat them like any other, orrifle or shotgun.
No more tax hands, no motorregistry.
Just background check and you'regood to go.
Is this well.
But the actual practical forhome defense maneuverability,

(04:44):
even hunting in small pacespaces.
The NA rules are relics.
From the time when Bureauthought off shotguns were out
weapon choice today, they'rejust another way to punish law
Biden Lawing Gun Owners.
The short act was introduced andit's a direct challenge that.
A P, the HPA, the short act isin trouble.

(05:05):
And it's even worse.
It's actually been removed fromthe house wave and mean
committee agenda.
That's right.
Our own Republican controlcommittee yanked it.
So what do we do?
Call the members of the houseWave and mean committee.
The number's 2 0 2 2 2 5 3 6 25.
And tell.
These bills have been aroundcommon since bills to protect

(05:28):
us.
And the problem is we've gotpolitics and propaganda and
groups like every town Push thatHollywood myth, that suppressors
silence, the fact that they onlydrop noise to about hundred 20
des thinking like a jackhammer,not ninja.
They also claim derailing SPRswould unleash chaos despite law
abiding citizens already passingrigorous checks to own them.

(05:49):
Meanwhile, some Republicans aresupposed to be allies are two
spineless to fight for thesebills when the media starts, but
it's not all been and gloom.
We have a chance.
We just gotta fight, fight,fight.
So people call the house wagecommittee, it's 2 0 2 2 2 5 3 6
2 5, and tell'em to stopsabotaging our rights.

(06:12):
Join in with a fight, get intothe battle and tell'em what we
need to do.
We, that momentum that d OJ hasbeen doing, the things we got
our.
We've got the executive order onprotecting our state rights.
This is just an extension ofthat.
So we have gotta fight and we'vegotta let them know what these
weak people, Republicans, thatwe aren't going to stand for and

(06:35):
that they need to know.
American public want to befreedom and so.
I.