beerslurpy
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On the drive home today I had a bunch of odd thoughts:
[NFA]
-unless I am completely off, manufacturing guns for your personal use in your home is a completely unregulated activity. You only need to inform the ATF if you plan to have the gun participate in interstate commerce or be transferred to another person
-this is not the case for NFA items
-normal firearms and NFA firearms are regulated by the same section of 18USC and presumably rely on interstate commerce for their reach
-why do NFA items and regular firearms differ in approach if they observe identical loci of interstate commerce?
[Definition of a silencer]
-silencer is defined as something that muffles the report of a firearm, right?
-silencers operate by allowing the gasses that form the report of the firearm to expand in an enclosed chamber instead of the air in front of the barrel
-any gas operated firearm is bleeding off a significant portion of its gasses into the gas cylinder, resulting in reduced muzzle velocity and reduced sound
-any gas operated gun would thus be louder if it was not gas operated, but do these count as silencers, no matter how much gas is bled off?
-how do integral silencers differ from gas bleed-off chambers except by position and the main function they perform?
-if you designed a gas cylinder as too large (like an AK, but with even more volume) so it completely muffled the report, would this count as being an integral silencer or not?
[NFA]
-unless I am completely off, manufacturing guns for your personal use in your home is a completely unregulated activity. You only need to inform the ATF if you plan to have the gun participate in interstate commerce or be transferred to another person
-this is not the case for NFA items
-normal firearms and NFA firearms are regulated by the same section of 18USC and presumably rely on interstate commerce for their reach
-why do NFA items and regular firearms differ in approach if they observe identical loci of interstate commerce?
[Definition of a silencer]
-silencer is defined as something that muffles the report of a firearm, right?
-silencers operate by allowing the gasses that form the report of the firearm to expand in an enclosed chamber instead of the air in front of the barrel
-any gas operated firearm is bleeding off a significant portion of its gasses into the gas cylinder, resulting in reduced muzzle velocity and reduced sound
-any gas operated gun would thus be louder if it was not gas operated, but do these count as silencers, no matter how much gas is bled off?
-how do integral silencers differ from gas bleed-off chambers except by position and the main function they perform?
-if you designed a gas cylinder as too large (like an AK, but with even more volume) so it completely muffled the report, would this count as being an integral silencer or not?