Hearing Protection Act

United States117th CongressHR-95House of Representatives
Updated: Mar 1, 2021

Summary

Hearing Protection Act This bill removes silencers from the definition of firearms for purposes of the National Firearms Act. It also treats persons acquiring or possessing a firearm silencer as meeting any registration and licensing requirements of such Act. The Department of Justice must destroy certain records relating to the registration, transfer, or making of a silencer. The bill also revises the definitions of firearm silencer and firearm muffler under the federal criminal code and includes such items in the 10% excise tax category.

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Timeline

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S-2050: Hearing Protection Act

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  3. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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  4. Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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