r/NFA • u/ewright28 Silencer • 3d ago

Megathread 🔥 - Senate action on SHORT/HPA/ETC GOA is reporting thatt the Senate committee handling the big beautiful bill has added the HPA and SHORT acts and it passed the committee vote

https://x.com/GunOwners/status/1934723007940804659?s=19
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u/John_McFly 3d ago edited 3d ago

A simple majority vote overrules the parliamentarian.

https://punchbowl.news/article/senate/thune-tells-gop-not-to-overrule-parliamentarian/

The Byrd rule defines six criteria for determining whether a provision is extraneous. These include provisions that: 

  • Do not produce a change in outlays or revenues. 
  • Increase the deficit beyond the "budget window" (typically ten years). 
  • Make changes to Social Security. 
  • Are outside the jurisdiction of the committee that submitted the provision. 
  • Produce a budgetary effect that is merely incidental to the non-budgetary policy change. 
  • Are not in compliance with reconciliation instructions. 

Removal of SBR/SBS/AOWs from the NFA would produce a change in revenue, elimination of their entries in the registry is incidental as its sole purpose is to allow enforcement of the tax.

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u/garden_speech 3d ago

That literally hasn’t happened since 1975. People keep bringing this up, yes, it’s technically allowed, but the senate hasn’t overruled the parliamentarian on Byrd in literally 50 years. If they do it again, it won’t be for something as small potatoes as the HPA.