Paul Ryan is known to liberals as an “Ayn Rand Libertarian.” What a laugh.
Just a day after Hillary Clinton tweeted a confused, absurd defense of strong gun-control laws following the Las Vegas tragedy, Paul Ryan is caving in.
The Speaker of the House announced today that he is shelving a piece of legislation designed to protect the sale and use of silencers, or suppressors, which help elderly gun owners at the shooting range.
Is Ryan really a liberal in disguise?
More from Breitbart:
Two days after an attacker opened fire on concert goers in Las Vegas, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc) announced he was shelving legislation to deregulate suppressors.
After the Vegas attacker killed at least 59 and wounded over 500, Hillary Clinton tweeted:
The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots.
Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 2, 2017
Clinton’s tweet ignores the reality of the tactical superiority of the attacker’s position–he was on the 32nd floor shooting down on people who were trapped in a concert venue. To escape they had to funnel through exit areas, which further highlighted the attacker’s superior position. Yet Clinton thinks it would have been worse if his gun had had a “silencer”–i.e., a suppressor–on it.
Ryan has now shelved the Hearing Protection Act, which was introduced into Congress on January 9; it is the legislation containing suppressor deregulation. The Act does not legalize suppressors–as they are already legal–rather, it removes the burdensome process for acquiring them and erases the federal tax that must be paid in order to receive permission to possess one.
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