GOP tax bill would ease regulations on gun silencers and some rifles and shotguns

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 23, 2025 8:49 AM PT | Mary Clare Jalonick

[Disambiguator]

“Parents don’t want silencers on their streets, police don’t want silencers on their streets,”

Nobody wants these in the streets. They want them at the range and out in the field.

Although they could be useful in the streets for riot control (h/t Col. Jeff Cooper). A suppressed .22 can take the wind out of a rioter's sails very quickly without them being mortally wounded, and they won't know where the shot came from.

[nevadapatriot]

>I just cannot believe that they are about to legalize SBRs and silencers. I’d bet a paycheck they won’t. But dang this is getting closer than ever before.

They’ve always been legal, just have to pay for the $200 tax stamp, submit your 4473, pass the bg check if needed in your state and take it home. Unless you live in a commie state

[Mlheureux]

Silencers just REDUCE sound and recoil. More enjoyable for the range and hunting. Socialist Demoncrats need to be less ignorant.

[larrytown]

They’ve always been legal, just have to pay for the $200 tax stamp, submit your 4473, pass the bg check if needed in your state and take it home. Unless you live in a commie state

And the inability to transfer-on-death as part of normal estate property - die with a suppressor and it becomes a legal hot potato. Hence all the trust nonsense that many go through.

[Vaduz]

Good deal now I won’t wake up my neighbors when a intruder brakes into my home.

[Ransomed]

Thanks so much T.B that’s some really great info. Just got one of the MP5 clones so I am trying to familiarize myself with the options. Do the locking block actions like beretta 92 have less problems than the tilting barrel with suppressed cycling because the barrel doesn’t tilt? Or is any extra mass on the end of the barrel screwing up cycling suppressed? These are probably stupid questions, just never had any experience with suppressors.

FReegards

[T.B. Yoits]

You're welcome.

My understanding is that the M9 can be suppressed with a "boosterless" suppressor if the suppressor is light enough. I believe the military contract suppressor was meant to run "wet" which helps when lacking a LID.