Posted on 09/20/2015 8:29:34 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
West Valley City - West Valley, Utah-based SilencerCo started up in 2008, making a .22-caliber silencer called the Sparrow. Since acquiring South Carolina-based SWR (Southeastern Weaponry Research) Manufacturing in 2011, SilencerCo has become the largest maker of silencers in the U.S.
It has been toying around with silencers for years, just waiting for an innovative idea that would put it on top. It has apparently found that product in the Maxim 9. The company's prototype is built partially on a Smith & Wesson M&P body, but Josh Waldron, SilencerCo’s CEO, told Range365 that the guns coming out in 2016 will be designed and built completely by SilencerCo.
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They should require this for Abortion, not for hearing protection.
I am a handgun hunter, usually just rimfire for small game and bigbore for really big game. I would love to have a suppressed rimfire for small game, but alas, I’m in CA.
“Suppressors are legal in 41 states, up from 37 a few years ago.”
UMP45 was good enough for me ;)
Isn’t “silencer” the incorrect term?
I thought it was suppressor.
I already have a local store that sells Accuracy International in .308 in other calibers with a suppressor. Of course, they are out of my price range but ... sweet!
I've never understood the tight control on them, I don't know if I've ever heard of a real-life criminal actually using one, just in hollywood. What I have always wondered is:
Why do criminals not use them, ever? and since they don't, why are these even a classified and controlled device? It's a simple device, easy enough to make yourself (I won't discuss any deeper for obvious reasons). I understand the concealability issue easy enough. It doesn't seem to me that there is really any foundation at all for such tight control since the criminal could just as easily make one if it were practical.. which it is not for their purposes.. simply too large.
I'd love to have suppressed firearms for target shooting and hunting and ditch the PITA ear protection, but I refuse to be on the ATF mailing list. I just don't understand the strict laws
In this age, I use an open can (a long Wix filter cut in half with one end completely open) at the range when shooting my AR pistols, because it sends the sound and flash downrange, to the delight of my shooting friends at the range. Does not suppress the sound ... if you were in front of the gun, downrange. I keep them on my tools at home, to surprise uninvited visitors.
It’s a foot long?
Too big for EDC...
You are correct but like the “magazine/clip” confusion, the terms have become interchangeable.
Doesn’t make it right though.
Ive heard of arrests and convictions for merely discussing the matter or manufacture. Not the best idea. I’m not trying to be a wise-guy... just putting it out there.
I like “gun muffler.” It’s what it does.
Hiram Maxim’s 1906 patent is for a silencer, though the devices do not truly silence. So both are correct.
Got a call this past week for my first suppressor, an Osprey 45. I have a 2nd in the works.
And just picked up a Sig Sauer 300 Blackout AR yesterday.
It is perfectly legal for anyone to make one.....as long as they pay the $200 Tax Stamp. * cough * extortion
There’s no good reason they couldn’t be sold just like any other firearm. Penalties could be applied if used in a crime. It all goes back to the firearms act of 1934.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-suppressors-nfa-regulated-item
probably a good idea to be armed if you go to visit them in West Valley City. it was a decent neighborhood to raise a family in 25 years ago. not so much anymore.
just keep telling yourself “diversity is our strength”.
It is a myth that the ATF has any additional powers over you for owning an NFA item. They still need need to go through all of the requirements as though you didn’t own one. The idea that the ATF can come into your home anytime if you own an NRA item is a myth.
Let me guess, if you use anything but CCI Mini-mags the gun will jam.
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