House still set to vote on deregulating gun silencers this week

How's this for a nauseating headine: "House to Vote on Gun Silencer Legislation This Week: The massacre in Las Vegas is unlikely to slow the progress of legislation in the House this week." After all, the NRA wants it, no matter the body count.

A provision called the Hearing Protection Act, tucked into the bipartisan Sportsmen Heritage and Recreational Enhancement, or SHARE Act, would eliminate restrictions on silencers and instead treat them as ordinary firearms. Under the National Firearms Act of 1934, suppressors—along with "destructive devices" such as grenades or rocket launchers, "sawed-off" shotguns and machine guns—require federal registration and a special license to own, as well as a $200 tax stamp to purchase that would also be repealed under the proposed law.

Because silencers are critical to the heritage of sport shooting and recreation. Of course they're going through with this vote. Because this:

A hearing on the bill was initially scheduled for June 14—the day of the congressional baseball practice shooting that injured House Majority Whip Steve Scalise—but was postponed until early September. It passed out of House Committee on Natural Resources on a party-line vote of 22-13 on Sept. 13 and would be expected to see a similar result when put up for a vote in the full House. Democrats in the Senate are expected to block the measure.

Having one of their own leaders gunned down only served to postpone the progress of this legislation. One of their own. They're not going to let yet another massacre stop them at this point.