One Big Beautiful Bill Act also includes a "provision that would water down a nearly century-old firearms law."

"The legislation would ease restrictions established by the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) on suppressors — often called silencers — and certain long guns such as short-barreled rifles and sawed-off shotguns. The change would eliminate the $200 federal tax on suppressors and the requirement that owners register them with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives."

"provisions that have been in place for 90 years..."

Complaining the $200 tax on suppressors is too high. "almost no one can afford it..." said Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde (Georgia).

"The NFA’s $200 federal tax requirement was meant to be prohibitive when it was set in 1934, Robert Spitzer, chair emeritus of the political science department at the State University of New York at Cortland, said, but it has not changed in more than 90 years. Back then it was equivalent to roughly $4,800 in today’s dollars."

Whatta ya gonna do?

Update:

"Republicans cannot exempt gun silencers, short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns from being classified as firearms under a federal gun regulation law from the 1930s, according to the Senate parliamentarian’s latest ruling on the “big, beautiful bill.”