Removal of Silencers from NFA?

[Oscar77]

I mean... this is shoved into a budget bill along with e.g. the land sale and all sorts of other pork.

This wouldn't be a problem if a bill was restricted to it's purpose, and we didn't have to worry about injected line items turning over your firstborn to the government.

I support the concept of this, but it really should be its own bill. The budget bill should strictly be budget. But, pigs flying and all that, so it's all gone to heck.

This sort of "lumping" of bills has been going on for decades now, if not centuries.
I agree, not saying it's right, and it is an example of pork- in the sense of an unrelated bill being lumped into others.
But it also is a finance and tax question and so it has atleast some connection to the budget.

I'm more stunned by the responses here and I'm not pointing you out in particular.
I understand that some posters here are Democrats and some clearly support gun control.
This bill would've had little impact on gun ownership or, in other words, was really just a token gesture.
But the level of nonsense in opposing it was pretty impressive.
In a way I do sympathize with Politicians who do actually try to support us and are met with this whiny, and honestly mostly ignorant, mistrust from "gun owners."