The Senate Parliamentarian has deleted popular NFA reforms from the pending Republican-backed reconciliation bill. 

Section 70436, “Elimination of Tax on Certain Devices Under the National Firearms Act,” was deleted from H.R. 1, better known as the "One Big, Beautiful Bill," according to a statement issued early Friday by the Senate Budget Committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. Jeff Merkley. 

Senate Dems had pressured the chamber's non-partisan Parliamentarian to remove the gun reform language as part of the "Byrd Bath" under the Congressional Budget Act, which bars non-budgetary provisions from reconciliation legislation, bills that can be passed with a simple majority vote. 

"Removing the regulatory structure for firearm silencers is thus not only dangerous but blatantly violative of the Byrd Rule," contends a letter from Democrats on Capitol Hill to Senate Committees. "Put simply, the provision represents a clear attempt to make a significant policy change to a century-old law and cannot be adopted through the reconciliation process on that basis alone."

This is a developing story, and it remains to be seen if Republicans will attempt to restore stricken language to H.R. 1 before its expected passage.