Our bill would remove these unnecessary federal regulations and make it easier for firearms users to protect themselves.” “The current process for obtaining a suppressor is far too expensive and burdensome. “Suppressors can make shooting safer for the millions of hunters and sportsmen that exercise their constitutional right to use firearms every year,” Lee said in a statement published by the Associated Press. The Silencers Helping Us Save Hearing (SHUSH) Act-S.1505 in the Senate and HR 3139 in the House-would remove suppressors from National Firearms Act requirements. Steve King (R-Iowa) in the House, would regulate suppressors as over-the-counter firearms accessories rather than require that they be transferred through federal firearms licensees after a background check. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) in the Senate, and Rep. I say especially if it's Harris because being a Republican, he is the only MD congressman that would possibly consider supporting this.Ī bill proposed by Sens. Here is a video from IV888 talking about it Ĭall your representative, especially if it's Andy Harris and let them know you want them to support this bill. Rocky Stone whose love of and compassion for people knew no bounds died on Augof complications from pneumonia.Have you guys heard about The SHUSH act yet? It goes one step past the HPA and suppressors will no longer require ANY paperwork to purchase much like any other accessory for a firearm He liked to say, “I have only lost my sight, not my vision.” Despite his disabilities, he served four years as president of the International Federation of Hard of Hearing People, was a member of the board of directors of Hearing International, and the Cochlear Implant Club International, and founded the organization Teamwork, Inc, to promote cochlear implantation.
A cochlear implant in 1994 gave him better hearing. He was awarded an honorary doctorate degree form Gallaudet University where he served on the board of the Gallaudet Research Institute.įollowing retirement in 1993 as SHHH’s first executive director, macular degeneration greatly impaired his sight. In 1990, he was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the advisory council of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the National Institutes of Health. In 1988, he was appointed by President Reagan to serve on the Architectural and Transportation barriers Compliance Board (“Access Board”), which drafted the accessibility guidelines for the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Stone served as founding member, volunteer, consultant and elected chair of various national organizations and committees dedicated to meeting the needs of people with disabilities, particularly hearing loss. The challenge is to develop togetherness within diversity.” We provide information necessary for them to make choices, but emphasize the choice must be theirs. Having overcome the challenge of childhood poverty and a profound hearing loss, Rocky believed in the ability of individuals to help themselves “I established SHHH as a membership organization run by people with hearing loss.
On retirement in 1975, he received the agency’s highest award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal.īecause there were no services for hard of hearing people, Rocky founded SHHH in 1979, serving as its volunteer executive director until 1993. Recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency, he spent 25 years in federal service with assignments to half a dozen Near and Far East countries. He then won a scholarship to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, but did not complete the program because his hearing loss precluded him from taking the oral exams. Following military discharge, he attended the University of Southern California, where in 1949 he earned a degree in International Affairs.
During World War II military service at age 19, a nearby explosion resulted in a bilateral hearing loss. He began working at an early age to help support his mother and two sisters during the Depression. “Rocky” Stone was born in 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founder of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH)
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