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Inside President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” are policy tweaks that would remove taxes and regulations on certain guns, but Senate Democrats aim to gut the changes from the bill.
Tucked into the Senate Finance Committee’s offering to the mammoth bill, which was unveiled earlier this week, are policy changes that would delist short-barrel rifles, shotguns and suppressors from the National Firearms Act (NFA).
That means those particular guns and accessories would no longer be subject to a $200 federal tax and would no longer need to be registered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Inside President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” are policy tweaks that would remove taxes and regulations on certain guns. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
The changes come from the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today (SHORT) Act, a bill pushed by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in the upper chamber, and Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., in the House.
Marshall told Fox News Digital he believed the gun language would make Trump’s megabill “even more beautiful,” while Clyde said in a statement the changes would “restore our Second Amendment rights.”
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Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall (Getty Images)
However, Democrats have vowed to inflict as much pain as possible on their Republican colleagues through the “Byrd Bath” process, which is when lawmakers and their staff work behind the scenes to ensure the litany of policy within the “big, beautiful bill” comports with the Byrd Rule that governs reconciliation.
And the gun language is likely high on the chopping block for Senate Democrats.
“Taxation and registration of firearms under the draconian NFA are inseparably linked,” Clyde said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “I’m confident our…
