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Silencers and short barrel rifles are back on the menu
Posted on 10/11/26 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 10/11/26 at 6:53 pm
ATF announced that it will no longer be enforcing those restrictions.
My understanding is that now (state law permitting) you can walk into a store with your credit card and walk out with a silencer. Or silencers.
My understanding is that now (state law permitting) you can walk into a store with your credit card and walk out with a silencer. Or silencers.
This post was edited on 10/11/26 at 6:54 pm
Posted on 10/11/26 at 6:55 pm to weagle1999
Yes, it depends on your state laws. Huge move in the right direction however.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 6:56 pm to weagle1999
I am not too familiar with SBRs, what should I be looking at the will not break the bank?
Posted on 10/11/26 at 6:56 pm to weagle1999
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My understanding is that now (state law permitting) you can walk into a store with your credit card and walk out with a silencer. Or silencers.
Yes it’s been like that for weeks or maybe a month now.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 6:57 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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I am not too familiar with SBRs, what should I be looking at the will not break the bank?
If you are in one of the “free” states like Louisiana and Texas you can take that silly “pistol brace” off the buffer extension tube and put a “stock” on it. Profit.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 6:58 pm to Squirrelmeister
I think the stamp is no longer required.
Also no background check if you are exempt.
Also no background check if you are exempt.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 7:03 pm to weagle1999
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I think the stamp is no longer required.
Yeah it’s been that way for a month, like I said.
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Also no background check if you are exempt.
That is incorrect. A background check is still performed with a standard firearm transfer form 4473.
So right now a suppressor is treated like any ole firearm.
The next step which could be a year or so away will be for the courts to redefine a suppressor as “not a firearm” and after that it will be like buying a scope or ammunition or a new trigger or bolt.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 7:04 pm to Squirrelmeister
Ahh okay. My state allows purchasers with a CWP to skip the background check for firearms purchases.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 7:09 pm to weagle1999
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My state allows purchasers with a CWP to skip the background check for firearms purchases.
No, your state allows you to skip the NICS check which is a means of complying with the background check requirements of the 1994 “Brady” bill, by using another acceptable background check process which is a check of your concealed carry permit. So you still have a background check, but it’s essentially a 10 second automated process of them swiping your CCP.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 7:19 pm to weagle1999
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Makes sense
Be careful with short barrels rifles “SBR” though. The gun control act “GCA” of 1968 still prohibits the carrying of a SBR across state lines without submitted and receiving approval of an ATF form 20. But the ATF no longer regulates SBRs nor registers them. So what you do is before you cross a state line take off the butt stock off your AR pistol so that it crosses the state line as a “pistol” and then after you cross, you can put the stock back on at the next pit stop.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 7:24 pm to weagle1999
Any info on stores with a nice silencer selection in/near BR?
Posted on 10/11/26 at 7:25 pm to weagle1999
To what extent do supressors affect aim?
Posted on 10/11/26 at 7:35 pm to deeprig9
I’m not an expert. I can tell you a suppressed .22 running subsonic ammo sounds like a stapler.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 7:41 pm to UptownJoeBrown
Louisiana Firearms has some nice ones. They run a but higher but it’s convenient. I got a sparrow .22 for my ruger 10/22.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 7:51 pm to deeprig9
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To what extent do supressors affect aim?
Unless you bumped your scope too hard when you were screwing the suppressor onto the end of the barrel, it won’t affect your aim.
It will affect point of impact though. So even if your gun is sighted in now, when you add the suppressor you will have to re-zero your sights/scope.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 8:48 pm to weagle1999
Sincere question…what happens if the next administration’s ATF wants to reinforce the tax stamp for suppressors? How would that be addressed?
I understand this issue is working through the federal courts and would assume it reaches SCOTUS before final rulings.
I understand this issue is working through the federal courts and would assume it reaches SCOTUS before final rulings.
This post was edited on 10/11/26 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 10/11/26 at 8:57 pm to weagle1999
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Silencers and short barrel rifles are back on the menu
a future administration's DOJ can appeal this ruling and can put alot of folks in no-man's land if they reverse course (no laws have been changed under this ruling, the appelllate court can strike down the district court ruling). Hopefully, we'll get some permanent info soon
Posted on 10/11/26 at 9:13 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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what should I be looking at the will not break the bank?
Lol. Just buy a lower and register it as an SBR. Throw and 11.5 upper in it and you're there.
All budget rifle vendors will likely be sold out of BR stock for months.
Get a K-can suppressor for it while you're at it. Those are going to be even harder to come by, prob for the next year
This post was edited on 10/11/26 at 9:15 pm
Posted on 10/11/26 at 9:21 pm to OMWsux
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Sincere question…what happens if the next administration’s ATF wants to reinforce the tax stamp for suppressors? How would that be addressed?
I’m not a lawyer, but this court injunction prohibiting the mandatory registration of SBRs, SBSs, and suppressors is permanent. The case cannot be appealed - that time allotted for appeal has elapsed. So a new law would have to be passed or a new case would have to be taken up in the courts that would potentially supersede this injunction.
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