Posted on 09/16/2014 4:46:41 AM PDT by marktwain
While the United States leads the world in most ways, it has lagged in the adoption of mufflers for guns. In most of Europe, mufflers on guns are not controversial. In Finland, ownership, manufacture, sale, distribution, and use of gun mufflers is a constitutional right. On most of the continent, gun mufflers are easier to acquire than firearms; their use is considered good manners.
Not so in the United States. Due to a weird quirk in firearms law passed during the Roosevelt administration, gun mufflers require a $200 dollar tax to be paid to the federal government. Processing of the tax form runs to several months. When the law was passed, the tax was equivalent to $4,000 dollars today. This "tax" was on a device that normally cost $10. Today such devices can be had for $50 in Finland. No reason was given for the virtual ban on the mufflers.
Now that inflation has reduced value of the tax to "only" one half to four times the cost of the device, there has been a resurgence in the use of gun mufflers. States are seeing the advantages of reducing ear damage and the irritation of neighbors. Most states now allow the mufflers to be used for hunting.
Florida already allows gun mufflers to be used on private property with rifles and pistols, and for hunting with shotguns. From jacksonville.com:
TALLAHASSEE | Hunting game in Florida could become less noisy by the end of the year.Florida is likely to join the other states in allowing the devices to be used for most hunting. It is hard to argue against it when bows and crossbows are legal.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission advanced a proposal Wednesday to remove a prohibition on the use of noise-suppressors, or silencers, with rifles and pistols when hunting deer, gray squirrels, rabbits, wild turkeys, quail and crows.
The proposal will now be advertised in the Florida Administrative Register, and the commission is expected to vote on the new rule in November.
Here is the link to the quoted article:
It is an insane law.
Just paid a little under $5,000 for hearing aids. Most probable cause is shooting, much of it with the M-14 during service. Military did not offer hearing protection until 1980’s, so many of us with service will face this problem. Nice to note that neither Medicare nor my supplemental insurance paid anything towards them.
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
I can’t envision CA and certain other states ever rolling over for this. This would be something congress could help with.
Then we could work on bans of gun mufflers as a clear infringment of the second amendment.
And yes, I'm aware the "silencer" on a gun is actually a "suppressor."
But, I was unaware that suppressors for shotguns were available. How does the added weight and length impact the swing and motion such as in dove hunting?
I wonder how it works with shot trying to go in all directions through the suppressor. I can understand a single bullet from a rifled barrel will go straight through but it seems that shot would damage the internals, as the pattern tries to spread.
The NFA needs to be repealed in whole and the ATF disbanded.
The author failed to learn in elementary school that ‘$’ means the same thing as the word ‘dollars.’
He did it twice, so it’s not a random brain outage.
I can’t take seriously anything someone says after that.
Why?
Because the "muffler" or can is not centered on the bore; it is a little lower, I assume to accomodate the scope.
I have a GAMO Whisper Cat .177 air rifle that I use in my back yard for vermin, but the report is so loud it limits it's use.
I was searching for a solution, but all cans block my scope. This photo is a game changer for me. I did not know they made them like that.
And yes, I'm aware the "silencer" on a gun is actually a "suppressor."
Why do we drive on the parkway, but park on the driveway? - G. Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/user/silencerco?src_vid=-cz8uZWtt3Q&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_9631
I had not watched silencerco’s promotional video. Well worth it.
Well, I’ll be. I need to apologize to all those people watching “No Country For Old Men” when I hollered, “There’s no such thing as a suppressor for a shotgun!”
Thanks for the update, I did not know that.
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