Gtscotty
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I am very much interested in suppressors. I have already suffered from hearing loss (from a one-time event 25 years ago). I religiously wear ear protection, but my hearing dog cannot which means he's not with me, and well, the bottom line is gun noise sucks. I would put suppressors on all my guns, even my CCW, and would never go back to non-suppressed guns if I was given freedom in this area. I do realize they don't silence guns and that hearing protection is still necessary with the great majority of ammo which is supersonic, but I would still go suppressed all-the-way.
The problem is not threats from liberal politicians to ban them, but that the NFA already demands submission to unreasonable infringements. Maybe I just need to be convinced that submission is better than to simply demur for a lack of a better choice.
The cost of submission is not insignificant. Silencers are ridiculously over-priced due to the restricted market and the compact ones that are even remotely practical for carry use wipes that I cannot easily renew from spares because those would be regulated silencer parts, which means I would have to buy several cans for one gun and routinely pay to have the wipes renewed. Were they not regulated, wipes would be cheap and user-replaceable.
Convince me the hassle, expense, and submission of forming a trust, the vetting, paying the tax stamps, buying several silencers, and constantly paying to have them serviced is a better exercise of freedom than not doing any of that and shooting loud.
No, if you don't want them, don't get them. But for the record, Dead Air and Energetic Armament, both of whom sell suppressors that can use wipes in special situations, state that the owner can replace wipes on a one to one basis. Remove old wipe, cut, replace with new wipe, you just can't stockpile a bunch of extra wipes.
Look at the wipes section on:
https://energeticarms.com/vox-centerfire-silencer/
I would never use one of those old style pill-box suppressors full of ablative and wipes on my carry gun anyway because they limit your use of hollow points.
I use suppressors on almost all my hunting/long range/plinking rifles and couldn't care less about wipes, they are, at best, a very niche product and aren't terrible useful the vast majority of the time.