Now might be the time to buy a silencer or silencers

Discussion in 'Firearms' started by oil pan 4, Mar 30, 2020.


  1. oil pan 4

    oil pan 4 Monkey+++

    I went looking for a 22lr silencer on GunBroker and the found the 22lr silencer selection selection had been raked over, but prices are pretty good.
    I saw a gm22 which is my oldest silencer for sale on there. I'm pretty sure I bought mine for $400 back in 2016, the one I saw was $300. I'm sure $400 in 2016 is more like $500 now. That's like half off when adjusted for inflation.
    When a silencer is discontinued they go for anywhere from 20% to 75% off from just what I've seen.
    Inventory and selection appear to be down and demand way up, but prices are also down for now.
     
  2. oil pan 4

    oil pan 4 Monkey+++

    Check this shit out. You can't buy a solvent trap but you can buy a silencer for your "air gun". Apparently these guys have been around forever and ATF is like whatever.
    I figured mmmmmk they're probably plastic and would never survive on a firearm. Not that it matters, you could make a silencer out of cheese and still catch a felony.
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  3. Brokor

    Brokor B.D. Knight Moderator Site Supporter+++ Founding Member

    Nope. Moderators are legit. Just don't get caught using one on a real firearm by the FEDS.
    I'm really hoping we can change these draconian laws. It's disgusting.
     
  4. oil pan 4

    oil pan 4 Monkey+++

    See I thought air gun silencers were perfectly legal so long as they were intergeral to the airgun. I guess I was completely wrong. Its good to be wrong.
    I guess I discovered firearms at age 12 then started loading my own ammo 3 years later and never looked back.
    I only used air guns for pest elimination around the house because they were quite enough as is and lacked nearly all the collateral damage firearms typically caused.
     
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  5. Brokor

    Brokor B.D. Knight Moderator Site Supporter+++ Founding Member

    Yeah, I didn't know much about them until a few years ago. I have been prepping airgun logistics since.
     
  6. oil pan 4

    oil pan 4 Monkey+++

    It might be time.
    No one thought the republicans had the balls to actually do it.
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  7. oil pan 4

    oil pan 4 Monkey+++

    Everytown for gun safety says 4 silencer murders have happen in the last 12 years. Skip to 10:30


    Schumer also claims that "400 silencers were recovered at crime scenes in 2023"
    Well if there were 4 murders with silencers over 12 years what's the context of "400 silencers recovered at crime scenes".
    Did they catch criminals with silencers? Were stolen ones recovered?
    Were criminals manufacturing them?
     
  8. Macgyver

    Macgyver Monkey++

    The question I have if this becomes law will I be able to make my own and be legal ?
     
  9. VisuTrac

    VisuTrac Ваша мать носит военные ботинки Site Supporter+++

    Not if you live in the states that outright ban them currently (or decide to in the future) While it might be a free for all federally, the states can have their own rules.
    Kinda like Marijuana. Federally illegal, numerous states allow both medical and recreational.
    Depends on which court you wind up getting tried in.
     
  10. oil pan 4

    oil pan 4 Monkey+++

    As long as you don't live in one of the 8 retarded States, that encompasses about a third of the us population that already has them banned.
     
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  11. oil pan 4

    oil pan 4 Monkey+++

    Hundo fidde dolla silencer.
    But wait there's more, it has an $18 recore fee if you blow out the baffles or plug it up shooting cheap ammo.

    $150 and guaranteed to love you long time.
     
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  12. oil pan 4

    oil pan 4 Monkey+++

    If you in South Carolina get yo ass in the car and go get one right meow.
    Like no shit, go buy a silencer as if it's a regular firearm by filling out a 4473 only.
     
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  13. Brokor

    Brokor B.D. Knight Moderator Site Supporter+++ Founding Member

    Yeah, it's final. HOWEVER, there are still some States that are run by Communists, so they require you to go through the same process of fingerprinting, which is BULLSH*T but that's what we get with Leftist mafia States...for now.

    All you other free folks living in Texas, Florida, Alabama, S Carolina, Arizona, and the rest can just go get a silencer like a free American should.

    Here's the color coded State listing and all the info you need to know: https://www.silencershop.com/where-are-silencers-legal

    If it's RED you live in a free State.
     
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  14. kckndrgn

    kckndrgn Monkey+++ Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

    My understanding is that many of the FFL's are waiting to hear from the ATF before they stop processing the form 4's. Even if you are in a state that allows the use of a suppressor they don't want to jeopardize their license.
     
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  15. VisuTrac

    VisuTrac Ваша мать носит военные ботинки Site Supporter+++

    Yeah, the mitten has a really convoluted law on silencers. You can own one but only if you have a license (tax stamp or be an FFL/SOT) from the feds. SBRs and SBSs are a little less restrictive as the law governing those only say approved by the feds and a 4473 transfer permission slip well is federal approval but ya gotta carry it with you if you take the shorty off the property.

    Yeah, damn purple gang and other prohibition era naredowells. fucking it up for the rest of us.
     
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  16. CraftyMofo

    CraftyMofo Monkey+++

    Lol, purple gang hangout was about a half mile from my house when I was a lad.
     
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