texas considering 'sound suppressors' on hunting rifles

[Downs]

Read on article on line a while back of a guy using a spear.


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[Sleeper]

legal in Kansas

[Dacotua]

A Poacher won't use a Silencer, they use .22LR's or a BOW. (You can not hear a bow.)

[Downs]

A homemade can for a .22 doesn't take long to make.

[Sleeper]

Most poaching happens in the middle of the night. Depending on the location, like where I am nobody would ever know.

[Darren M]

"If you can't hear other hunters and don't know they are on property, near your hunting area, you certainly have greater risk of a hunting accident," Hightower said.

For some reason this angers me. If I don't know someone is on "a property" that I am hunting on then either them or I are a poacher. (I hunt on my Dad's place in Brady Tx.) Also, he makes it sound like you can tell, EXACTLY where someone is because they do not have a suppressor. Well.... what if that person never fires a shot??? Still don't know they are there... or are they there at all?? His logic isn't logical at all.

Give me a suppressor for my 6mm. PLEASE! I like hearing.

[CJ]

A homemade can for a .22 doesn't take long to make.

There are ATF agents on this board so you know.

[Chopped54]

Give me a suppressor for my 6mm. PLEASE! I like hearing.

Yep!
I have permanent hearing loss that the ENT doc traced back to the db consistent with gun shots....

[Darren M]

A homemade can for a .22 doesn't take long to make. From what I've heard/read on the interweb.

Fixed.

[Downs]

There are ATF agents on this board so you know.

Doesn't mean I've ever made one. The fact is if you understand how they work they are not that hard to make with some tools you can buy at home depot. Especially for a low power .22. They obviously won't be as smooth, streamlined or efficient as a commercial one but they would work.

[Chopped54]

Doesn't mean I've ever made one. The fact is if you understand how they work they are not that hard to make with some tools you can buy at home depot. Especially for a low power .22. They obviously won't be as smooth, streamlined or efficient as a commercial one but they would work.

Also not illegal if on a Form 1....

[svauto-erotic855]

I keep hoping that suppressors will simply be taken off of the NFA list and sold just like any other firearm accessory. The cost would drop to about 30% of what they sell for now if that happens. I'd have Surefire cans on everything that I own a week after the change if it ever comes.

The really funny thing is that they are completely unregulated in most of Europe and you will have your hunting license pulled if you don't use one while hunting in many countries over there. They also allow hunting game animals at night.

[David]

I keep hoping that suppressors will simply be taken off of the NFA list and sold just like any other firearm accessory. The cost would drop to about 30% of what they sell for now if that happens. I'd have Surefire cans on everything that I own a week after the change if it ever comes.

No they wouldnt.

[Dacotua]

I keep hoping that suppressors will simply be taken off of the NFA list and sold just like any other firearm accessory. The cost would drop to about 30% of what they sell for now if that happens. I'd have Surefire cans on everything that I own a week after the change if it ever comes.

The really funny thing is that they are completely unregulated in most of Europe and you will have your hunting license pulled if you don't use one while hunting in many countries over there. They also allow hunting game animals at night.

Silencers aren't that expensive right now. Hell the Fed Tax is like 50% of the cost of them now.

[Downs]

Silencers aren't that expensive right now. Hell the Fed Tax is like 50% of the cost of them now.

I'm not even worried about the price. I shouldn't have to jump though flaming hoops and fork 200 more dollars than I already do to get a tax stamp to f'in own one