” like to walk-hunt, not sit in a blind-I don’t want to be doing that where someone with a silencer is walk-hunting too-it seems dangerous.”
I think they are already legal for hunting in Texas.
I don’t know if they are or not, but I absolutely will not hunt the same area where another hunter uses one. Since there is no public land-only private land-around here to hunt, it isn’t an issue. About 20 years ago, an inexperienced hunter wandered into the area I was hunting and took a shot at me-I heard the boom, hit the dirt, yelled profanity and rolled down into some trees instantly. If that idiot had been using a silencer, I would not be here talking about it...
Silencers are really suppressors (mufflers). If the cartridge used is supersonic, there's little one can do to suppress the sharp "sonic boom".