welcome kira lerner and lois beckett to democracy now!alk about the legislation in washington right now. >> thank you for having me. the legislation moving forward in washington this year, as you mentioned, is called the share act. congressman jeff duncan from south carolina has been pushing this provision called the hearing protection act that he tucked into the share act this summer to put it into a more innocuous sounding bill. what it would do is deregulate the sale of gun silencers. right now, gun silencers are regulated under the national whichms act of 1934 -- means in order to purchase a gun silencer, a buyer has to submit a background check, go through fingerprinting, register their purchase with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. so there are pretty high firearms to purchase a now. the also the fit to hundred dollar tax. sometimes because of bureaucratic backlog, this can take months. with the hearing protection act tucked away in a share act would do is deregulate silencers so that you would just have to submit insta