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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Tax-Free Silencers & the HPA Bill

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Why did the Hearing Protection Act fail? Will it ever go through? Was the abolition of the $200 tax stamp on silencers a win for gun owners? Should potential buyers wait until the sunset of the NFA $200 tax occurs at the end of 2025? We answer all these questions and more on this episode of the Backcountry Hunting Podcast. ENJOY! 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Folks, the world is going silent, and that is a beautiful thing.

0:03.9

Suppressors are becoming more and more prevalent, and that is in great part.

0:08.5

Thanks to a man and an organization.

0:12.0

I have Brandon Maddox with Silencer Central on the line with me today, and we're going to

0:16.4

talk about all things in the silencer suppressor world, whether it's the recent successes politically

0:23.5

and the future suppressors, new product development.

0:27.8

And we might even touch on some of the hiccups that we've seen in the last several months.

0:32.9

Brandon, my friend, it is great to have you back on the show.

0:36.2

Thank you, sir.

0:36.8

I appreciate the opportunity

0:37.7

to come back again. You bet. It's been a wild ride the last six months, hasn't it? Oh, yeah.

0:43.8

Boy, it always is, right? You never know what to expect. You know, let's dive right in. And, you know,

0:51.1

since the last time you and I talked in depth, I think the biggest

0:56.5

shift we've seen, well, there's two really big ones is the dramatically faster processing

1:03.4

time for the reforms. And then the recent win, I think we can safely call it that, where if I'm not mistaken, as of January 1,

1:13.8

the $200 suppressor tax is just going away.

1:19.4

Is that correct?

1:20.6

Yes, sir.

1:21.0

It is.

1:21.5

Absolutely.

1:22.4

Fantastic.

1:23.1

Talk us through how these two things came to be from you know from your perspective so first uh you're

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