SHUSH Act
Sponsored By: Senator Mike Lee
Introduced
Summary
This bill would reclassify and largely deregulate firearm silencers at the federal level. It would move silencers into the firearms-accessory tax category, reduce federal penalties and licensing tied to silencers, and block state and certain consumer-safety rules.
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- Owners and buyers: The bill would treat silencers like firearm accessories for tax law and create a two-year retroactive window for certain transfer taxes. It would also say people who acquired or possess silencers in line with Chapter 44 meet the National Firearms Act registration and licensing rules in effect the day before enactment.
- States and consumer regulators: It would invalidate state taxes, marking, recordkeeping, or registration requirements tied to silencers in interstate or foreign commerce and exempt silencers from Consumer Product Safety Commission regulation.
- Federal enforcement and law enforcement rules: The bill would remove silencers and mufflers from the federal definition of regulated firearms, narrow criminal penalties and licensing that apply to silencers, and change carrying and authority provisions for qualified law enforcement officers.
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
States barred from taxing or registering silencers
This bill would block state and local laws that impose a tax or require marking, recordkeeping, or registration of silencers when that rule is a condition on interstate or foreign commerce. If enacted, those state or local laws would have no force or effect in those interstate commerce situations. The change would take effect on enactment.
Silencers excluded from consumer safety
This bill would remove firearm mufflers and silencers from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's list of covered products. If enacted, makers, importers, and sellers of these items would not be regulated by the CPSC under that definition. The change would take effect on enactment.
Tax and registration changes for silencers
This bill would reclassify firearm silencers under the federal tax code and change transfer-tax rules. Most amendments would take effect on the date of enactment. The bill would apply the transfer-tax change to transfers made after the date two years before enactment. It would also treat people who acquired or possess a silencer in accordance with Chapter 44 of title 18 as meeting National Firearms Act registration and licensing rules as they existed the day before enactment.
Remove silencers from federal firearm rules
This bill would remove firearm mufflers and silencers from multiple places in federal firearms and criminal law. If enacted, some penalties and regulatory rules that applied to silencers could no longer apply. The bill would also change carry-authority language for certain law enforcement provisions. These changes would take effect on enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Mike Lee
UT • R
Cosponsors
Rick Scott
FL • R
Sponsored 1/30/2025
Pete Ricketts
NE • R
Sponsored 1/30/2025
John Curtis
UT • R
Sponsored 1/30/2025
Roger Marshall
KS • R
Sponsored 1/30/2025
John Cornyn
TX • R
Sponsored 2/27/2025
Bill Cassidy
LA • R
Sponsored 2/9/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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