>>509394219the bill originally decimated the NFA by removing the requirement to register SBRs and suppressors, meaning you could make them at home if you wanted or just buy them at a fucking gun store
this passed the house
it had enough votes to pass the senate
then an unelected bureaucrat (the senate parliamentarian) gave an OPINION that said part of the bill did not comply with the byrd rule (essentially a rule that disallows things that aren't related to tax and finance from being included in finance bills) despite the fact that the only reason the NFA was passed in the first place was that it was explicitly an excise tax
rather than either firing the parliamentarian, ignoring her, or just using Vance to overrule her, they capitulated and wiped the NFA delete from the bill because they're pussies
i don't give a shit about this bill unless the NFA gets killed because of it, nor should anyone else
literally all the rest of the bill is, is just "oh strike $300,000 here and add $250,000 there and remove 2014 from section 2.1.234a and add 2020-2035 to section A-15.6(3)a" typical pork barrel retard shit