The latest draft of the Senate Finance Committee’s reconciliation bill includes long-overdue rollbacks of the National Firearms Act — repealing the tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns.
After the House passed the reconciliation bill in late May, the National Association for Gun Rights mobilized gun rights supporters across the country to unleash a torrent of grassroots pressure demanding the Senate include provisions from the SHORT Act, which removes short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and AOWs from the NFA.
On Monday, June 16th, 2025, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee released their draft of the reconciliation bill — and it included two of the National Association for Gun Rights demands:
- Removal of suppressors from the NFA; and
- Inclusion of SHORT Act provisions to deregulate short-barreled rifles and shotguns.
The SHORT Act guts key NFA regulations, while Section 3 of the HPA (Hearing Protection Act) goes even further, blocking states from enforcing federal suppressor regulations that Congress never gave them the power to enforce in the first place.
However, the Finance Committee omitted critical preemption language protecting suppressors, an apparent oversight, as the bill does contain similar language for SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs.
NAGR is urging all gun owners to call their Senators and demand that suppressor preemption be added to the final draft and the bill be passed.
Additionally, NAGR is also demanding Senate Republican Leadership defend these pro-gun provisions against hostile efforts by Senate Democrats to gut them from the bill.
Dudley Brown, President of the National Association for Gun Rights, had this to say of the bill draft:
“This is a test. The NFA is a tax, and gun owners will remember who stood strong to repeal it — and who caved. Pass it, or prepare to explain why you didn’t in the next election.”
Key U.S. Senators are hoping to have the “Big Beautiful Bill” to President Donald Trump’s desk by the Independence Day weekend, however, others are less hopeful.
