Remember folks, no more omnibus bills.
Thank FUCKING god! These laws are stupid for many reasons.
Suppressors protect everyone’s hearing. Also, I’m constantly worried I’m annoying or frightening someone. Dialing back the sound is a benefit for everyone.
Short barreled rifles and shotguns are LESS dangerous. The shorter the barrel, the slower the velocity of the shot. I have a POS derringer that shoots .45LC (.45 bullet, more powder). That fucking thing bounced a round off a wooden pallet at 30’.
The shorter the barrel, the less accurate a weapon is, even at short range. When I carry in the woods I often pack something a full-size, even though it’s a PITA. But I can hit a target with a 5" barrel, can’t hit shit with a 3".
Look, this bill is heinous, but this is at least a single bright spot.
The House bill would remove silencers — called “suppressors” by the gun industry
How to tell me you know nothing about firearms. They’re called suppressors because they aren’t silencers. Firing a pistol with a suppressor is far from silent. It won’t damage your hearing, but it’s only on TV and video games that a pistol with a suppressor is impossible to hear.
Literally the only good thing in that bill.
Truth be told, I hope the democrats don’t waste energy fighting this. Their effort would be much better spent on fighting the tax policies. Suppressors and short barrelled rifles (SBRs) are pretty easy to get if you don’t care about doing things legally. The $200 tax stamp and paperwork mostly serve to make law abiding gun owners’ lives more cumbersome. In the 30s, a $200 fee was basically a ban, these days it’s less than the suppressor itself. Hell America is actually pretty unique in restricting suppressors. They’re legal in many parts of the world because they have more sporting value than criminal value.
Hell America is actually pretty unique in restricting suppressors.
That is not accurate as firearm suppressors are regulated in Spain, Russia, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Cypress, Belarus and the Benelux countries to name a few.
Yeah true. I didn’t verify that. I know there are several countries with large restrictions on guns but little to no restrictions on suppressors, though. For shooting range or hunting applications, a suppressor is basically a heating safety device.
One unexpected outcome, will be a lot of suppressor noobs exploding their new $800-1500 can because they don’t know how to properly check for thread concentricity, or know how to properly thread lock a muzzle device.
Also, the suppressor industry has always been set up for limited production, people not knowing how to navigate the NFA makes them a low volume item (okay that was a good pun). Once they’re deregulated, they will fly off the shelves and it will likely take a decade or more for manufacturers to step up to the new levels of demand.
LiberalGunNut™, didn’t know all that. I thought you just chose a suppressor with the correct threading and hole size for your caliber. Also, is thread locking any different than when installing a bird cage or the like?
Think I disagree of 10 years to catch up. They’re simple devices and I would think it would be easy to spin up production. Probably not for mom-and-pop makers though.
Having proper concentricity gauges allows you to ensure your barrel threading is concentric to the barrel itself. Even a slight deviation in the centering of your muzzle threads could lead to baffle strikes, or rapid unintended disassembly .
Proper installation of muzzle devices used in the quick attachment of a suppressor usually requires proper torque applied with a torque wrench, and/or proper application of a thread locking compound to ensure the muzzle device doesn’t walk its way down the threads, again leading to a non-concentric position which results in destruction.
I also make it a point to use the opposite of thread locker, anti-seize compound, on the threads mounting the suppressor itself to the muzzle device threads, preventing the suppressor from carbon locking itself to the muzzle device.
I spent a lot of time on the Reddit NFA thread seeing many examples of demolished cans, so I made it a point to learn how to not demolish my can.
(Edit: I should clarify, these steps are for mounting to a semi auto rifle with a QD muzzle system, direct thread attachment is a thing, but when using a direct thread method you should be really cautious and really know what you’re doing. Pistols especially can be prone to walking their can off the threads, whereas a bolt action rifle handles direct thread really well.)
As far as production, I suppose it depends on the manufacturer. They are moving farther and farther from being simple tubes with baffles. Mine is a 3d printed stainless steel marvel of engineering, and I imagine the tooling and space to dramatically increase production for the civilian market would be massively expensive and time consuming. New QA, new machine operators, training, working out the kinks.
