Suppressor Approval wait time?

[ken158]

$200 for the ATF issued stamp + the price of the suppressor + cost to engrave the suppressor.

You don't engrave a suppressor you purchased from a manufacturer, only engrave if you make it - manufactured it.

 

[gnystrom]

Sorry if I am about to be a wet blanket but I am holding off until AFTER the election has been decided. The ATF is making noise that they want more power and that is not good news for shooters. Bump stock>braced rifles>working towards?
It may be worth seeing who has control of the WH before you dump a $grand into something that could become illegal overnight on the whim of some powerful politician.
Interesting stuff here,
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvmftYHWKM[/ame]

 

[Nick B]

A friend just got his stamp back . 4 months.

 

[BARgunner]

So if you build your own-fill out a Form one and then keep it as a demo model
do you need to have anything further to do with the ATF tax stampe or whatever???
What about buying an 80% kit????
My mind is a cogitating here.....

If you build it from scratch or a kit, you file a Form 1 and have to pay $200 for the tax stamp and have your personal information engraved.
If you buy one from a manufacturer, you file a Form 4 and pay the $200 for the tax stamp and your personal information does not need to be engraved.
This applies only to an individual or a trust that is building or buying a silencer.
The big manufacturers are in a different category and pay their tax with a SOT.

 

[Farmer17]

Weren't they supposed to pass something in congress under some hearing protection/public health act that would allow these to be sold with out a stamp??? ANd BTW how much is the stamp??? And where do you get one from??

I bought my suppressor about 2 years ago and this is my vague memory of the process. I bought a Silencer Co Spectre II .22 can off the internet, I think from Buds, for about $230. They sent it to my FFL that charged about $65 to do all the paperwork and store it until I get my stamp and approval papers. I also had to submit forms on the Silencershop Kiosk machine at my FFL (this looks similar to an ATM machine). The fee to use this machine was about 20 or 25 bucks and it takes your picture and fingerprints and saves a lot of time and hassle with the paper work, so I was told. The waiting period is next and it took about a year but we had a government shut down and they were only taking about 6 months before that. It was all well worth the wait I love shooting my Ruger 22/45 with the can and Bushnell red dot sight and it's very quiet. I recently took it to a hog hunting resort with my mens group from church and before we went hunting we spent time at the plinking range. The guys burned through a ton of my CCI standard velocity ammo but they had a blast!

 

[Jessie]

I bought and filed the paperwork in Feb. of this year and picked it up 7 months later.

 

[smoothshooter]

I would hold off on trying to get one for now.

 

[jeffrefrig]

I was shooting at a range last year and some kid with a tacti-cool gun had one; said it took a year. He was all excited, as I would imagine, and he shot the gun without the suppressor, then he said something like,"Now listen to how quiet it is with THIS!" He attached the suppressor. Now he had a small audience of about ten of us. He shot the gun, and it was just about as loud as without it! We were nice, didn't say a word. I swear his eyes were tearing up, pretty red-faced, he was picked off, embarrassed, and was totally beside himself. I felt bad for him. He took it off, looked at it, put it back on and shot it. This time I put my ears on, but not directly over them correctly. It didn't really make any difference! He put his stuff in the gym bag and left. I would've been ticked, too; all that money and waiting for nothing! It's always my goal to mess with people, but this was NOT the time. I never did find out what the problem was. But, anyway, he waited a year.
Bummer, man!

 

[Dieseltech56]

And that's where Hollywood has fooled us all into thinking suppressors are so dangerous because they completely muffle the sound of a shot.

You cannot suppress the crack of the bullet breaking the sound barrier as it leaves the muzzle. Now when you shoot slower than the speed of sound is where the difference is

 

[jeffrefrig]

And that's where Hollywood has fooled us all into thinking suppressors are so dangerous because they completely muffle the sound of a shot.

You cannot suppress the crack of the bullet breaking the sound barrier as it leaves the muzzle. Now when you shoot slower than the speed of sound is where the difference is

Exactly. I wish I would've asked what caliber, etc., this guy was shooting, just for my own knowledge. Also, at the time I didn't think suppressors worked like on TV with all guns, but I didn't know. I would think wherever he bought it they would've told him what to expect. Yes, he was waiting for a James Bond click click! These shops around here are all pretty good so Lord knows who he bought it through.

 

[JM4151]

Suppressor's and sound reduction.

I have a Gamtech for my 22 rifles and it also fits a few of my handguns. I think it a 1/2 28 thread. Most of the times that I have shot it I have used covered shooting positions, and it did not reduce the loudness very much at all. I was at the range this past Monday and I met a man there that had one on his 22 rifle. His gun made very little noise. He suggested to me that I should try shooting my rifle out in the open. What a difference the noise level was when the noise doesn't bounce off the roof. My rifle was as quiet as his. Please keep this in mind if your silencer is not as quiet as you think it should be. Please note that Gamtech is now owned by Smith & Wesson, and their operations have moved to Springfield, Mass.

 

[reddog81]

I would hold off on trying to get one for now.

I'd argue the opposite. Get one now while you still can. The regulations certainly aren't going to get any looser.

I was holding off on buying another one until the Hearing Protection Act passes, but that ship has sailed. If I didn't own one already I'd be buying one.