{"id":1906,"date":"2012-09-25T22:57:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2012-09-25T22:57:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:57:59","slug":"ssshhhhsilencers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/ssshhhhsilencers\/","title":{"rendered":"(ssshhhh\u2026silencers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently had the pleasure of touring the Utah facility where Silencerco<\/a> and SWR sound suppressors for firearms are manufactured.\u00a0 I toured my first arms plant in the late 1960s and many since, and I\u2019ve never seen a manufacturing facility cleaner or more modern than this one.\u00a0 Their approach to their product is just as clean and modern.<\/p>\n

They want to make silencers more readily available to law-abiding citizens.\u00a0 I for one have no problem with that at all.<\/p>\n

Before Silencerco absorbed SWR, those companies joined two other firms to create the American Silencer Association<\/a>.\u00a0 Most of the general public, and even many shooters, are unaware that these devices are legal to own in most states, though it involves going through some legal hoops, and a $200 government fee.<\/p>\n

ASA maintains a full-time lobbyist to work in several directions.\u00a0 At the state level, to make it legal for law abiding citizens to have silencers in the jurisdictions where it isn\u2019t now.\u00a0 And, to make it legal to hunt with them, which is not the case in many states.\u00a0 At the national level, the association wants you able to buy one without <\/em>having to pay $200 to the Federal government<\/a> for approval, and hopefully streamline the whole process.<\/p>\n

Suppressors can be life-savers in emergency shootings inside buildings.\u00a0 Police officers and citizens fending off home intruders are at risk for some hearing loss when they fire powerful weapons in close quarters with their ears unprotected. During the fight, loud gunfire can keep you from hearing something that might make the difference between life and death.\u00a0 Hunters firing high powered rifles without ear protection often notice their ears ringing for some time thereafter, a sign of hearing damage.\u00a0 Cleaning out pastures full of prairie dogs ruining good land, or herds of feral hogs doing the same, means lots of gunfire and multiplies that potential for hearing damage.\u00a0 Ear protection can help, but most types get in the way of hearing where the animal is, and all are uncomfortable for all-day wear in the field.\u00a0 Suppressors solve that problem nicely.\u00a0 I\u2019m told ASA\u2019s efforts have resulted in Texas and Arizona approving silencers for hunters.<\/p>\n

In other nations \u2013 even anti-gun England \u2013 the use of silencers for casual hunting, pest eradication, and recreational shooting in the countryside is encouraged.\u00a0 It is considered the gentlemanly thing to do there, so neighbors are not disturbed.<\/p>\n

For more information, go to www.silencersarelegal.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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