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Things Are Getting Real For The BATFE’s Firearms Technology Branch, NFA
Posted on 4/17/14 at 12:49 pm
Posted on 4/17/14 at 12:49 pm
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was served a lawsuit last week by SIG Sauer. This suit immediately followed ATF’s public chastising from a judge in a similar case brought by Innovative Arms (both cases where muzzle brakes were submitted for testing and classification and deemed “silencers” by the ATF, but no decibel reduction testing was provided to back up their determinations).
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The Court goes even further to question the history of “what exactly Congress was concerned about in deciding to regulate silencers at the federal level”, and points out a study showing that “The 1934 congressional debates [over what became the National Firearms Act] provide no explanation about why silencers were licensed” in the first place.
The ATF’s National Firearms Act Branch is incredibly overworked and understaffed. It is constantly inundated with tens of thousands of silencer transfers, and is currently dealing with the frustrations of a contractor’s failed e-Forms website (that was supposed to help ease their workload and speed the processing times of these transfers). Add the issue of being repeatedly sued over arbitrary determinations – on what is not even a firearm to begin with, but rather a harmless noise-pollution reduction device – it is certainly a ripe time for Congress to assess if suppressors should be removed from the purview of the NFA entirely.
Posted on 4/17/14 at 12:51 pm to wickowick
read this earlier.
will most likely be a slap on the wrist then back to business as usual, unfortunately
will most likely be a slap on the wrist then back to business as usual, unfortunately
Posted on 4/17/14 at 12:55 pm to tiddlesmcdiddles
The misconception is that Silencers make guns whisper quiet, that is not the case in most instances. Why not make the legal for everyone and save hearing?
Mickey would approve. Do it for the ears!
Mickey would approve. Do it for the ears!
Posted on 4/17/14 at 1:07 pm to tiddlesmcdiddles
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will most likely be a slap on the wrist then back to business as usual, unfortunately
Agreed. The lack of popularity and appeal to the general firearms community of a silencer/suppressor aids this, unfortunately.
And although popularity rises as people are more familiar with the legal process of said items, it still is not there.
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