[marktwain]

The extreme tax placed on gun mufflers was one of the worst public health debacles in United States history. Millions of citizens have lost hearing as a result.

[CrazyIvan]

Take the muffler off your car-illegal.
Put a muffler on your gun-illegal.

Don’t ya just love government?

[gaijin]

Muffler on lawn-mower shows that person IS VERY BAD!

He wishes you HARM.

[toddly]

I know if I had to fire my AR-15 inside my home in self defense that I would suffer severe hearing damage. My ears still ring after range time with plugs and Muffs. No idea how our soldiers manage that.

Suppressors get people thinking James Bond silent. Nothing could be further from the truth. Firearms are still plenty loud with them and hearing protection is still recommended.

Outside of the unconstitutional aspect of the bureaucratic hurdles to ownership the argument could easily framed as a public health issue in my view.

[Retain Mike]

I am still wanting to try out the plastic pop bottle I saw on the Borne Indentity.

[woodenickel]

Silence is golden but, duck tape is silver.

[FourPeas]

one would assume a silencer was illegal based on general logic about its applications

only if one didn't bother to engage oneself in some rather basic logic

[Zhang Fei]

The gun-loving conglomerate, Freedom Group, now sells more than 1.2 million guns a year, notching $40 billion in yearly revenue.

Their sales are obviously not all gun-related. If they were, they're getting an average of $33,333 at wholesale per gun. My guess is that this guy is making up a lot of the article out of thin air.

[junta]

Out at my place in SW Nebraska and listening to a Kansas radio station when an ad came on from a gun store announcing that it is the silencer sales leader for Kansas. I had a tear in my eye, both from joy and the fact that I’m stuck in the People’s Republic of Illinois.

[Doctor 2Brains]

I LOVE my silencer! Got it fitted for a cz-75b, 9mm. Took 4.5 months to get the silencer, but almost one whole year to get the threaded barrrel. It’s a blast, though. Well, maybe not a “blast”!

[Atlas Sneezed]

If there has to be regulation of suppressors, it should be to make them *mandatory* in certain circumstances.

[Myrddin]

Some of my customers in Germany were commenting that "silencers" are expected equipment on rifles used at the range. It is inconsiderate to shoot without one there.

[TXnMA]

What?

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Actually not funny; my tinnitus is almost disabling at times...

[Joe Brower]

Looking for recommendations on a suppressor for a .22lr.

[DCBryan1]

Oh, I forgot....be sure to check out: Silencer Research.com for more detailed info on different suppressors out there.

[DCBryan1]

Oh, I forgot....be sure to check out: Silencer Research.com for more detailed info on different suppressors out there.

[P8riot]

I have suppressors for all of my weapons (except shotguns), my most recent one is for my new .416Barret. It took almost 3 months for the Form 4 to be approved. NFA really sucks, adding $200 and a waiting period to these pieces. We ought to be able to buy them the way they do in Europe, over the counter.

[mo]

“...was illegal based on general logic about its applications,”

somebody really shouldn’t be thinking too much....