Posted on 03/04/2017 5:43:15 AM PST by marktwain
Suppressors are currently under the jurisdiction of the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC). That means suppressors may not be sold to individuals overseas, only to approved governments. Suppressors are not extraordinary high technology. Sophisticated suppressors are not secrets. They can be produced by any concern with modern machinery.
The current restrictions were put in place by a memorandum from the Department of State in 2002, a few months after the attack on 9/11. While U.S. manufacturers are forbidden to sell to individuals overseas, foreign manufacturers are not. A bill was introduced in the House of representatives in 2016 to rectify this situation. It is called the Suppressor Export Act.
Josh Waldron of SilencerCo explained some of the details of the current situation.
Do you think the Suppressor Export Act will go through in the first year?
"The interesting thing about the Suppressor Export Act is that we have the ability to change that in several ways. I was appointed to President Trump's Second Amendment Coalition. Once the new administration is settled, If I can use my relationships to convince the State Department to get rid of the policy memo that forbid the export of suppressors, we do not need legislation.
There never was a regulation change, there never was a comment period, there was never legislation, that made it that we could not export suppressors. There was a guy who sent out a memo saying "we are no longer going to approve of the export of suppressors."
We are working it from all angles. Moving into Commerce takes it out of DDTC. That would be extremely helpful. There is a three pronged approach, legislation, export reform, a relationship to convince the administration to tear up the memo."
No law, no regulation, not due process. Deep state stuff.
Power-drunk government punks... Bad!
Well, it’s a double-edged sword - suppressors should be legal, and if they are legalized, the ones going for $350 now (before the cost of the stamp) will be coming from China at $19 a piece, retail.
” I have a pen and I have a phone”
Ridiculous.
Trump has a pen and a phone too.
It should be:
“Ace is the place fwith the super helpful suppressor man.”
There should be zero paperwork.
Well, it was during the Dubya Bush administration, only a few months after 9/11.
Well, it’s a double-edged sword - suppressors should be legal, and if they are legalized, the ones going for $350 now (before the cost of the stamp) will be coming from China at $19 a piece, retail.
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If that were true, why aren’t we buying Chinese shotguns for $19? American Shotguns (the 870) runs about $329, retail.
The Chinese copy runs about $210.
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The Chinese copy runs about $210
Shotgun has moving parts, which a suppressor does not. Receiver for shotgun must be strengthened with tempering. Shotgun must go through FFL, which will mark everything up as much as they can. Shotgun has liability issues.
You can make a suppressor with about $2 worth of materials.
In unregulated markets, I see cheap .22 suppressors going for about $20-$40.
For high powered rifle suppressors, about $300 to $600.
That is in New Zealand, where anyone can buy one or a dozen, cash and carry.
So, there is a range of prices.
I thought I knew the general details of 9/11 pretty well.
Someone please enlighten me.
What did suppressors have to do with 9/11?
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