Is your state ok hunting with a silencer?

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Then please, tell me your point if it wasn't an argument that silencers increase poaching.
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I said it made it easier to get away with (undetected) not that poaching would increase because of it. Not just at night but also on posted land where permission to hunt has been denied.
 
How does legalizing silencers specifically for hunting effect illegal activities in any way, shape or form?
 
I have a friend in NJ... according to him, not only are suppressors highly illegal, even under the NFA route, but hunting with a rifle in general is also illegal.
 
Silencers In Wa ....... #2

Quote by ChristopherG:

"In Washington you can't shoot a suppressed weapon. Period. Do not get a tax stamp, do not pass go. "

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=423471


Not as far as I know ...... I have some number of friends with them.

While it's true that you are not allowed to shoot your suppressor in Washington ..... it's a gross misdemeanor if you get caught shooting it.

It takes a law enforcement officer witnessing the discharge of said supressed weapon ....

Hunting by extension of legally not being able to shoot it is out.

The buying and owning it requires Federal requirements and your local law enforcement official signing off on it.

Unless things have changed recently ..... that's how it is here in Washington State ......... muddled up ...... of course.

Three 44s
 
In Washington you can't shoot a suppressed weapon. Period. Do not get a tax stamp, do not pass go.
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BS on the last sentence (bolding mine). I have lots of tax stamps. I shoot the suppressed firearms when I travel out of state. I am also working to change the law banning their use.

Ranb
 
Kansas Dept of Wildlife and Parks says suppressors are prohibited, although they are hard-pressed to point out where in any of their regulations it says that.
 
for some unknown reason, the state of Iowa would rather that i slowly lose my sense of hearing.

if they were legal, i would buy one or two in a heartbeat!
 
The People's Republic of Maryland? Are you kidding? They "allow" silencers when used by "professional" marksmen who are hired to thin out the deer herds in "no hunting zones" when the rich folks get tired of thousands of dollars of damage being done to their landscaped yards, and the silencers are so them folks aren't disturbed for it's done at night with NVG scopes..., all so as not to 'offend' the suburbanite Socialists..., God forbid they allow bow hunting in those areas.

I said it made it easier to get away with (undetected) not that poaching would increase because of it. Not just at night but also on posted land where permission to hunt has been denied.
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Actually poachers out here use bows and crossbows, so using a silencer wouldn't really increase anything. The cost alone for the stamp and the can would probably keep it out of the hands of most of our local poachers.

LD
 
In West Virginia it is legal. Finally got a game warden to accept that fact, but he was not happy with it.
 
RanB, good luck on that as Washington is becoming more like California by the day. I see it here in Oregon too, but at least we still enjoy freedoms. I find the American culture odd in its paranoia of silencer use. I guess we can thank Hollywood and our dronish society that pays money to watch their perversion on the big screen. When I was stationed in Germany for the Army I found out many European countries encourage silencer use and folks there can get them right over the counter for cheap, say $30, without the governMENTAL nightmare we go through here in the Land of the "free". Of course most europeans dont get to enjoy real guns, mostly low powered airguns and maybe a 22 with the right permit, but still at least silencers arent viewed as sinister tools of assassins.
 
Ever shoot a bow or crossbow from inside a moving vehicle?
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Nope, ever hit a deer with a slug fired from a scoped shotgun from a moving vehicle? what's your hit ratio? How close do the deer have to be to the road? :evil:

See no rifles in any but 2 and a half western counties, so you don't have to be caught with anything but the rifle and you're toast. You get spotted shooting from a vehicle, you don't have to hit anything here, and you're losing the truck and the rifle.

If you want to poach, you need to go where the deer are..., the area bordering the no hunt areas..., and a shot will get you caught, especially at night. Swing a spotlight, and the local cops will be on the way. Then you have to go and get the deer after you put it down. (The cops will gladly eat the deer for you; or take it to a meat cutter who donates it to a homeless shelter.) We tend to be a bit more densely populated here than most people realize.

LD
 
Utah is no. But they are fine for non-protected species, like coyotes.
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I wrote to the state DNR asking about it 10 or 12 years ago. It is not addressed in the hunting proclamation, and nowhere in the state laws. And while the Big Game proclamation specifically prohibits the use of any firearm capable of full-auto fire, the Small Game proclamation is silent.

The response I received from the DNR was that it was legal to hunt big and small game in UT using a silencer, and that full-auto was legal for small game.
 
Wyoming - no. In fact, you can not even have one when in the "game fields".
 
bubba15301 said:
bubbles - silencer are not legal to hunt with in pa
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False. They are legal for hunting. It's not clear from the published regulations but I have seen copies of letters from the Game Commission written in response to individual queiries that state that they are legal.
 
False. They are legal for hunting. It's not clear from the published regulations but I have seen copies of letters from the Game Commission written in response to individual queiries that state that they are legal.
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Yep, the regs are quite convoluted but it's legal. Two years ago I participated in a managed deer hunt on a military facility. The CO was cool with me using a suppressed rifle once I showed him my letter stating it was cool. I also have a letter from VA DNR stating it's legal since I wasn't sure how well the enforcement guys knew the law.
 
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