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Democrats Have April 28 Circled—Do You?

A single House hearing could hand anti-gun lawmakers the opening they need to kill the last firewall against a federal gun registry.

WTF News May 20, 2026 📖 2 min read

The Tiahrt Amendment is the only thing standing between 100 million law-abiding gun owners and a permanent federal firearms registry. It blocks the ATF from dumping trace data on the public, bars warrantless inventory audits of gun dealers, and requires approved NICS background-check records to be destroyed within 24 hours. Gun owners fought for every word of it across two decades of brutal congressional battles.

**That wall is now under siege.**

The House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement has scheduled a targeted hearing on the Tiahrt Amendment for April 28—and anti-gun Democrats are already loaded up and ready to fire. Rep. Madeleine Dean introduced the Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act in June 2025, a bill that would gut every single one of those protections in one stroke. The April 28 hearing is her megaphone.

Here's what makes this dangerous: the subcommittee is Republican-led. Normally, that's the firewall. But congressional hearings don't need to pass a vote to do damage. Putting radical ideas on the record—under klieg lights, with sympathetic witnesses—legitimizes them. It gives wavering members political cover. It feeds the narrative machine for weeks.

And the narrative gun controllers will push is already written: ATF is in flux, the agency needs *more* authority, not less, and the Tiahrt Amendment is the obstacle standing in the way of "public safety."

**Don't fall for it.** Tiahrt isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed—keeping your purchase history out of a federal database that one executive order or one compromised bureaucrat away from becoming a confiscation list.

The witness list is the tell. When it drops, watch for Bloomberg-funded research groups, anti-gun law enforcement lobbies, or activist academics. If those names appear on the roster, this isn't an oversight hearing—it's a coordinated pressure campaign designed to peel Republican support for Tiahrt before any floor vote reaches the full House.

**Here's your move:** Call your House representative today. Not tomorrow. Today. Tell them the Tiahrt Amendment is not up for debate—it's up for defense. The gun-control lobby is betting you won't notice this hearing until it's too late.

Prove them wrong.

ATFlegislationfirearms restrictionsgun rightsTiahrt AmendmentHouse Oversight
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