Look, I want nothing more than for the NFA to go away and me to be able to buy a lightning link legally for $100.
But the huge thing that people are ignoring is that if we use the budget process to get things off the NFA, you can use the budget process to put stuff on the NFA.
When the Democrats nuked the filibuster on judicial appointments they were warned it would backfire. It did. The dems thought they would never be out of power, so they opened that door and it got used against them later.
The GOA is playing a stupid and very short-sighted game. They are behaving as if anti-gun dems will never be back in power. If the GOA got their wish, then the next dem admin could put AR-15s and Magazines and semi-auto pistols on the NFA, with the full and correct justification that the precedent has been set. They could remove or overrule the pro-gun parliamentarian to keep the NFA additions in place.
My rule is to think of how my worst enemy would use the power I'm about to invoke against me and then decide if it's worth the risk.
Sure, you could argue they could do that anyway. Same as with the filibuster. What I do know is that if we open that door sure as hell, 100 percent certainty, it will get used against us later.
At least zeroing out the tax removes the justification for keeping them on the NFA. Using a normal bill to finish the job is far less likely to bite us in the butt later.
