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Great champion for the Second Amendment and a good friend and Budget Committee member, Mr. Andrew Clyde. Chairman, second ask for one minute. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My Democrat colleagues have challenged why the deregulation of silencers is in t Well, under the law, they are firearms and therefore protected by another law enacted in 1791 called our Second Amendment of our beloved Constitution. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and neither shall it be taxed. C If you can tax it, then you can destroy it. You can raise the tax so But the Second Amendment is an unalienable constitutional right, God given, that governments are required to protect not to tax. The Supreme Court in the Heller decision of 2008 declared the Second Amendment to be an individual constitutional right, further protecting it from taxation, just T My Democrat colleagues have asked, how did t What was the deal? And who asked for it? No deal. I believe the speaker with the purest of motives simply wanted to restore a constitutional right. And who asked? Thomas Time has expired. Me. I asked. I yield. Thomas, eventually. Perhaps it's because it's now past 4 a. m. , but I feel We have 13. 7 million Americans, at least, who are going to lose their health insurance because of t Another $500 billion worth of cuts to Medicare on top of that. And what is one of their last speakers talking about? A tax cut if you buy silencers. The reality is millions and millions of Americans are going to lose their health coverage all to help subsidize tax cuts for billionaires. Oh, yes, and also tax cuts for those who buy gun silencers. And with that, I'm happy to yield one minute to the gentlemen from New York, distinguished member of the Agriculture Committee, Mr. Riley. The gentleman's recognized for one minute.
