Posted on 07/30/2015 1:03:43 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Gun silencer sales are on fire.
The number of registered silencers surged 38% from last year to 792,282 in February 2015, according to the most recent figures from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. There were 571,750 licenses in March 2014.
"It's getting to be more mainstream," said Josh Waldron, CEO of SilencerCo, which makes and sells silencers.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Am glad to hear that because that is how I am doing both of mine.
That would be Coburn - since retired. He did a good job until he came down with the Potomac Disease...
You can convert an oil filter into a pretty good, cheap suppressor but you need a stamp for the adaptor. Go figure.
If they thought their idiot readers would understand what an SBR is they would really see some numbers.
And just for the record, 792,282 silencers sold in one year × $200 tax stamp equals $158,456,400.
Not a small chunk of change......for a poll tax, that is.
We ought to be able to walk into Walmart and pick from 20 different silencers hanging on pegs in the sporting goods section.
Having to jump through a bunch of hoops and pay stamps is silly. I say this as a guy with hearing loss and tinnitus from firearms among other things.
I am with you 100%.....absolutely no reason in the world these should be an NFL item. I would argue they don’t need any sort of background check either as the device is simply a hollow tube,
And forgot to add in my prior post that what makes the suppressor sales numbers so astounding is the fact that suppressors are legal in only 80% of the states.
NFL should read NFA
To the ATF. The guy is long dead, I have no idea where the gun went, and the guy who bought his collection is dead. There was also a boating accident, a house fire and a tornado.
They also know that silencers on revolvers work. (Odessa File)
There are less than a million legal gun mufflers/silencers/suppressors in the United States.
Those numbers are just scratching the surface.
There are about 300-350 million firearms in the United States.
Realistically, there should be upwards of a hundred million suppressors in the peoples hands.
They should be purchased over the counter in hardware stores.
The over regulation of gun mufflers and the millions who have lost hearing as a result are a national disgrace. It is one of the worst government health caused disasters in U.S. history.
My mistake. I read it as sales when the numbers actually represent total licensed silencers.
I once talked to a guy who went to New Zealand on a hunt. He showed me pictures of a cheap cardboard box containing a 22 suppressor hanging in a store display, with a sticker for 8.95 New Zealand moneys. He said it was considered being polite to your neighbors to have one on every gun.
I’m not sure his replacement is much better, but I’ll send an email and let you know how his office responds.
The thinking, (This was back when the Tsar still sat.) was that with a gas tight seal, you got more muzzle velocity.
They kept building them until 1945, and they were only retired, finally, in 2003 as an issue weapon. They had a 2,000,000+ production run, so it is remotely possible that every silenced revolver you ever saw on TV was a Nagant. The design allowed for a functional suppressor.
Yeah, I knew about the Nagant, but their scarcity - plus Hollywood’s and most of the publics’ ignorance, allowed them to use standard revolvers and then dub in the Pfftf sound.
It is VERY nice. My XDm’s sights are about useless with it screwed onto the barrel, but I can still guesstimate where to aim it pretty good.
Shooting it at the range ALWAYS strikes up conversations, and I let anyone who wants to shoot it (Even the range safety officers) to do so.
Also, a word of caution.
The piston will make it blow crap into your face. Always wear eye protection, and keep your mouth closed. And, take a potholder with you. It’ll get quite hot after a couple of magazines.
Motion capture, with a 3D headset. Tied to a robot, with a multiplexed signal system, on the bottom, next to the Titanic, or in a live volcano. No risk of life, no real bottom time limit, imagine the dexterity.
do we need permit to get them?.......................... Not if you use an oil filter instead? Or a Steve Segal Pop bottle.
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