Bitter Bastard wrote:xd ED wrote:And last time I checked(20+ yrs ago), air gun suppressors were viewed by the atf as NFA items
In general, airgun silencers are not NFA if they are permanently attached to the airgun barrel, with no easy way to adapt it to firearm use. That's the reason airgun silencers are all integral and not screw-on cans like most real silencers. Obviously lots of nuances behind that thinking, but that's the gist of it.
A friend has one of the silenced pellet rifles you can buy at Fleet Farm or wherever. It's pretty quiet. Fun to shoot a certain distance, then accuracy drops of remarkably fast. I don't remember the exact distances, but at something like 15 yards, it was a 1" gun. At 20 yards, it was a 6" gun. Something like that anyway.
Bitter Bastard
Yep.
I read up on the topic. I don't know if/ when the law changed, but I recall when I was far more into are rifles..late 80s- 90s,,, that airgun suppressors were the same as firearm suppressors in the eyes of the ATF. Now maybe I had that wrong, or the interpretation changed.
Used to have a lot of fun with air rifles.. picking off starlings and squirrels that were hectoring my nesting wood ducks.
My Weihrauch HW77 with the right pellets could drill a starlings head poking out of the nest box at 40-50 yards. 25-30 yrds for tree rats.
Back then I was comfortable shooting in my St Paul back yard without the SWAT team showing up... now, not so much.