Biden's EPA spent four years threatening Wyoming ranchers with thousand-dollar-a-day fines over mud puddles on their own land.
Now a Democrat congresswoman wants to send federal agents to collect your suppressor
But one Wyoming man running for Congress just shredded her entire argument and he only needed one line to do it.
The Confiscation Bill They Hope You Miss
New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman just reintroduced the HEAR Act of 2026 – a bill that would ban the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, and possession of suppressors nationwide.
This isn't a future sales ban.
It's a confiscation bill targeting every suppressor already in private hands – with zero grandfathering for the 6.1 million legally registered owners who went through federal background checks and the ATF approval process.
Watson Coleman called suppressors "tools of murder."
Wyoming congressional candidate Steve Friess knows exactly where that idea comes from.
"Liberals have this goofy idea from spy movies that these suppressors turn everything into a silent little blow dart or something. That is not the case," Friess told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "There is still a lot of noise generated by any gun that has a suppressor on it. This is just to protect our ears."
The National Shooting Sports Foundation agreed – noting that suppressors reduce noise to a level that won't cause instant and permanent hearing damage, and calling Watson Coleman's bill a case of putting an antigun political agenda ahead of actual firearm safety.
James Bond Is Not Real Life – But This Bill Is
Watson Coleman represents a New Jersey district where suppressors are already banned for civilians.
Now she wants the rest of the country living under her state's rules.
If you hunt, you already know why that's insane.
"If you're out stalking some elk with a couple friends, you want to go with guys that have got suppressors," Friess said. "Because that way, three of you might get shots off instead of just one, and then the entire herd bolts up into the hills."
That's not a fringe use case.
That's Tuesday morning in Wyoming.
The real political context makes the HEAR Act even more contemptible: Trump's reconciliation bill slashed the federal transfer tax on suppressors – a clean win for gun owners.
Democrats couldn't stop it legislatively, so Watson Coleman responded by introducing a bill to criminalize the ownership of suppressors that were already purchased legally.
You won a tax fight, so they moved the goalposts to confiscation.
They Already Came for Your Land
The suppressor grab isn't an isolated move.
It's the same playbook Biden's EPA ran on your property.
The Waters of the United States rule – WOTUS – handed federal bureaucrats authority to regulate privately owned land whenever they decided a wet spot on it qualified as a navigable waterway.
"The Biden EPA redefined what a navigable waterway was," Friess explained. "And it could include a seasonal pond on your land. And if you wanted to smooth out a field so you could grow more, if you didn't have the right permits … they could come in with thousands of dollars of fines a day."
An Idaho couple found out how that worked in practice – fighting the EPA all the way to the Supreme Court after being threatened with tens of thousands of dollars in daily fines for building on ground the agency deemed too wet.
Getting it wrong about a low corner of your own field wasn't a paperwork problem.
It was a federal enforcement action.
Friess flagged something even more alarming about how the rule was enforced.
"I wonder how are they choosing the people to go after," he said. "Because they define this rule so broadly that it allowed them to insert themselves and come in. Just punitive fines that were very hard to unwind."
That's not environmental protection.
That's selective punishment – vague rules weaponized against people Democrats want to make an example of.
The Pattern Is the Point
The HEAR Act is dead on arrival in a Republican Congress.
But that's not the point of introducing it.
The point is the next time Democrats hold the majority – and they will hold it again – you will not get a warning.
Your Second Amendment rights, your land rights, your ability to hunt elk on your own ground – they view all of it as negotiable.
Every suppressor you legally own is a future felony conviction waiting for the right election cycle.
Every puddle on your ranch is a potential five-figure daily fine the moment a Democratic EPA administrator decides you're worth targeting.
Friess – son of the late conservative megadonor Foster Friess – is running in Wyoming's August Republican primary specifically to send someone to Washington who understands what's actually at stake.
"James Bond is not real life," he said.
Neither is the idea that Democrats will stop here.
Sources:
- Anthony Iafrate, "'James Bond Is Not Real Life': GOP Candidate Talks Gun Rights, Wyoming's Water Wars," The Daily Caller, June 18, 2026.
- "Democrat Lawmaker Bonnie Watson Coleman Proposes Australia-Style 'Buyback' For Your Suppressor," The Daily Caller, June 16, 2026.
- "Democrat Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman Introduces Bill Banning Firearm Suppressors," Breitbart, June 9, 2026.
- "Zeldin Overhauls Obama-Biden Water Rule That Let Puddles Trigger Costly Permits," Fox News, November 17, 2025.
- "Steve Friess, Son Of Legendary Conservative Megadonor Foster Friess, Announces Run For Congress," The Daily Caller, April 3, 2026.
