They can. Suppressors are much more legal than they aren’t these days (as I understand it).
The feds now want them registered.
I don’t like that. I view it as the last step before outlawing them and confiscation.
Trump is wrong here. He’s bought into the media’s representation of them.
I saw some stats on the decibels of a firearm without the suppressor and with.
One one certain weapon it was 160 before, and 135 after. That’s hardly silent, and is still head jarring loud.
I don’t like that. I view it as the last step before outlawing them and confiscation.
The feds NOW want them registered? As you may have noticed upthread, the National Firearms Act was passed in 1934. So if registration brings with it the threat of confiscation, FedGov has kept the peace for over eighty years. These (legitimate) fears will only come to pass when this country finally falls to an anti-American, anti-Constitution cabal of leftists. What happens at that point is a topic for another day.
For now, the court seems uninterested in removing "silencers" from the NFA's registration requirements. Oddly enough, that keeps silencers bound to the language of the NFA, thus making them less vulnerable to general ignorance (and executive orders) than, say, bump-fire stocks.