In Texas, suppressors were made legal for hunting starting with this year. There was no reason to exempt or restrict them.
What if you just want to have one use at the range? If would be nice to do target practice somewhere and protect your hearing or be able to use a weapon in self-defense and not have to lose your hearing in the process. Hopefully, this law will permit instate manufactured suppressors for other than hunting.
Suppressors are a safety device. I would expect OSHA to approve them as an “engineering solution” to the dangerous decibel level.
Suppressors protect you from hearing loss in the same way mufflers are mandated for certain types of equipment where humans are intended to be nearby.
We don’t argue these point correctly.