This hearing was the start, or public start, of Rep. Hughes' campaign to end the new making of silencers and machine guns. It was not a surprise midnight thing in 1986, that the making ban on mg's was tacked on, as NRA sometimes likes to claim. In fact when HR 4332, the 1986 House FOPA bill was reported out of the House Judiciary Committee, it didn't have a mg making ban, but a silencer making ban. That was removed, and the mg making ban added............