[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Supressors were included in the Firearms Control Act of 1934 to stop game poaching.

Perhaps, but I'd guess that bought and paid for politicians delegitimized them to make them out of reach of the gangsters who were bribing the politicians to start with. A Mexican stand off...

Regards,
GtG
PS They are not all that hard to fabricate. The most difficult part is keeping the internals aligned with the rifled barrel to prevent the expended bullet from striking the baffles.

[rellimpank]

--FDR's Atty General, Homer Cummings, was under pressure to "do something" about the "crime wave" "sweeping the country" --(Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, et al.,) and fixed on "guns" as the problem---

--pistols and revolvers were to be included in the mix of highly taxed weapons but the small and not particularly powerful NRA got them removed from the National Firearms Act--

--Cummings himself admitted that "militia" weapons couldn't be forbidden under the Second Amendment but proposed that they could be taxed out of existence---