Bill > S345

This bill, known as the "Silencers Help Us Save Hearing Act" (SHUSH Act), proposes significant changes to how firearm silencers are regulated at federal and state levels. The bill aims to treat silencers more like standard firearms accessories by removing many existing regulatory restrictions. Specifically, the bill modifies several sections of the Internal Revenue Code and U.S. Code to eliminate federal registration and licensing requirements for silencers, remove silencers from certain penalty provisions related to firearms, and preempt state and local laws that impose additional taxes, marking, recordkeeping, or registration requirements on silencers. The bill also exempts silencers from Consumer Product Safety Commission regulation. By making these changes, the legislation effectively reduces federal and state oversight of silencers, making them easier to acquire, possess, and transfer. The bill includes provisions that would apply retroactively to transfers made up to two years before its enactment, and it seeks to simplify the legal treatment of silencers by removing them from many existing regulatory frameworks that currently treat them as specially controlled items.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/345/all-info