Posted on 08/03/2020 7:05:12 AM PDT by marktwain
Cautionary Note: All silencers require a $200 tax stamp from the BATFE in the USA. I caution U.S. readers not to produce one unless you pay the tax and acquire the proper paperwork first. Any time you are breaking new ground in the world of firearms development, especially when it involves new technologies, we caution you to get the best legal advice in navigating and lawfully complying with the multiple and confusing world of local, state, and federal gun laws. The only stated purpose of this article is to report on new developments and the adaption of new technologies for personal gunsmithing. Note to government agencies AmmoLand News follows all rules to the letter of the law. No silencers were created in the production of this article.
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U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- In the first part of this series, I wrote about the history of silencer criminalization, about how a simple safety device, relatively easy to make at home, was made into contraband. Contraband where mere possession can result in some of the heaviest criminal penalties in the federal sentencing guidelines.
Silencers are easier to make today, than at any previous time in history.
The process to pay the draconian tax required to make a silencer is easier today, than at any time in our history.
The potential penalties for possession of a silencer, without the payment of the tax, are draconian. Federal guidelines call for a minimum sentence of 27 months in prison, without parole. The potential fine is $10,000. The maximum sentence, if the silencer possession coincided with possession of drugs with intent to distribute, is 30 years in prison without parole, and a $250,000 fine.
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Use the ghetto silencer. An empty soda bottle.
I have multiple (legal) suppressors. I used to shoot 200-plus rounds per day, almost all of them silenced. These days, I’m down to 150 rounds per day (because of the ammo shortage), only 10-20 of them not .22 LR, but still almost all silenced. Almost the only things I don’t use a silencer on are revolvers and .380 auto (because the only reason for shooting .380 is that pistols are smaller than the silencer).
There is no valid law enforcement reason to ban/tax/restrict silencers. As I see it, it would be rude not to shoot with a silencer if it weren’t for our silly gun laws.
Solvent traps are today’s Brass Knuckles Paperweights.
Since I’m so old that gunfire hurts my ears, outdoors I only shoot naked (meaning no ear protection) in a snowstorm...
Grape soda?
bkmk
Somebody was marketing some attachment (yeah, I know) a few years back that looked like it could very easily be converted into a silencer. I don’t remember if it was supposed to be for cleaning or zeroing or what.
Scratch my last. This is what it was. The Modular Solvent Trap. Never mind.
Would the $200 tax be for the silencer or the sugar in the soda?
Sugar, in New York. No 2liter silences allowed, though. Nobody needs that kind of suppression.
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