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You are correct, but so am I: True, you can own them for a $200 tax on a $5 silencer, including an invasive background check, with fingerprints and a signoff by your local sheriff - if in fact he will sign off and they are not otherwise banned by state law. But I am correct because they are banned from ordinary civilian ownership, say, compared to guns or Bibles, and you will get a no-knock raid if the feds think you own one, or plan to make one, outside of their channels. People who merely owned tubing and disks have been convicted of possession of parts to construct, with intent to construct, a silencer, which is a felony. It is difficult to reconcile this type of enforcement attitude with the concept of something being "not banned." And, indeed, some counties have sheriffs who will not sign off on any class-3 items, and for people who live there, they are indeed very much banned. No doubt there is some overlap between those places and the ones where shooting ranges are imperiled because of noise complaints.