Overview

• The Senate Parliamentarian advised that stripping $200 tax and registration requirements for suppressors and short-barreled firearms breached the Byrd Rule and would require 60 votes to remain in the reconciliation text.
• Senate GOP drafters rewrote Section 70436 to eliminate the NFA tax stamp in a form designed to satisfy budget reconciliation guidelines.
• Inclusion of the deregulatory provision now depends on either a full Senate override with 60 votes or re-addition as a simple-majority amendment.
• Gun rights organizations and President Trump have urged GOP leaders to preserve the repeal, while gun-control advocates warn the changes would undercut background checks and paper trails.
• Lawmakers must finalize the reconciliation package by the end of June to determine whether the suppressor tax repeal survives to President Trump’s desk.