The HEAR Act would turn millions of lawful suppressor owners into criminals.
Washington Democrats are at it again.
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman has reintroduced the so-called HEAR Act, a bill that would ban the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, and possession of firearm suppressors.
In plain English: Democrats want to criminalize hearing protection.
Suppressors are not Hollywood “silencers.”
They do not make firearms silent.
They reduce noise, protect hearing, improve safety at the range, help hunters avoid permanent hearing damage, and make firearms training safer and more responsible.
That is why millions of Americans own them legally.
That is why hunters, sport shooters, instructors, veterans, and ordinary gun owners use them.
And that is why the gun confiscation lobby wants them banned.
Because this was never really about “public safety.”
It is about control.
Registration Today, Confiscation Tomorrow
Suppressors are already among the most heavily regulated items in America.
For decades, law-abiding Americans have had to submit paperwork, fingerprints, photographs, background checks, registration documents, and a federal tax just to purchase one.
They followed the rules.
They registered their property.
They waited on the ATF.
Now Democrats want to make possession itself a crime.
That is the entire gun confiscation agenda in one bill: force gun owners into a federal registry, then use that registry to come after them later.
The HEAR Act reportedly includes a federal “buy-back” program — which is Washington-speak for surrender your property or become a criminal.
That is not a buy-back.
The government never owned these suppressors in the first place.
It is confiscation.
Suppressors Should Not Be Treated Like Contraband
There is nothing radical about protecting your hearing.
There is nothing dangerous about reducing noise at a shooting range.
There is nothing criminal about owning a device that makes firearms safer and more comfortable to use responsibly.
The only reason suppressors are treated like contraband is because politicians and bureaucrats have spent decades lying about them.
A suppressor is a firearm accessory.
It should be treated like one.
That is why Texas Gun Rights supports bills like the SHUSH Act — the Silencers Helping Us Save Hearing Act.
The SHUSH Act would remove suppressors from the National Firearms Act and Gun Control Act, ending the federal tax, registration scheme, and bureaucratic hurdles that punish law-abiding gun owners for wanting to protect their hearing.
No more bans.
No more registries.
No more ATF paperwork.
No criminalizing millions of Americans who did everything the government told them to do.
Texas Gun Rights will keep fighting to expose every attempt to turn ordinary gun owners into criminals — whether it comes from Congress, the ATF, or the gun confiscation lobby’s army of anti-gun politicians.
Suppressors are not the problem.
The politicians trying to ban them are.
Chip in today to help Texas Gun Rights fight the gun confiscation agenda and defend law-abiding gun owners without compromise.
