Suppressors for firearms have become quite popular with American shooters, especially so since the $200 Federal Tax Stamp was dropped on January 1, 2026. Prior to that, besides the $200 required fee, it could take several months going through a complicated bureaucratic process to be approved to purchase a suppressor (aka silencer, which isn’t an accurate term, because sound is only suppressed and not completely silenced), which today usually only requires a week or two without all that previous fuss and muss. All the shooters I have talked to who have been using suppressors fully … Read More
Silence Can Be Golden
A growing trend in the shooting world has been the use of suppressors to quiet matters down and be a bit easier on the ears. Suppressors reduce sound intensity and are often called “silencers” which is a misnomer, because depending upon the ammunition being used, matters aren’t totally silent. It relates to whether the ammunition is supersonic which will feature a loud sonic “crack” exiting the barrel, or subsonic which will lack the noticeably sharp crack. While a couple of “silencer” patents by Swiss inventors appeared during the 1890’s, the first commercially successful introduction was … Read More