“Tag: Suppressors”

While firearm suppressors protect hunters’ and shooters’ hearing, their regulation under the National Firearms Act of 1934 requires buyers to fill out an application, pay a $200 tax and go through a time-consuming background check—and that’s in the 41 states that permit them.

Suppressors are often referred to as “cans” because they look like, well, a soda can on the end of a barrel. Note that “silencer” is really not the correct term; suppressors don’t actually silence anything. They merely reduce the audible sound emanating from the muzzle of a hunter’s rifle to differing degrees.

Hunting the Alaska-Yukon moose, the largest ungulate in the world, becomes a distinctly modern endeavor when the author and his partner pursue bulls with ARs fitted with suppressors.

Field Editor Brian McCombie had an opportunity to put SilencerCo-equipped firearms to use on a South Texas deer hunt. What's hunting whitetails with a suppressor like? Get Brian's take here.

Two American travelers tag along with a band of modern-day woodsmen for a hunt once reserved for English nobility.

With more and more states legalizing the common sense practice of hunting with suppressors to protect our hearing, more hunters than ever will take their rifles afield this year with new devices attached to their muzzles.

SIG Sauer has a number of new-for-2015 products that hunters should have their eye on.

Because silencers (or suppressors) have been regulated and priced out of the average Americans’ means since 1934 (the required federal $200 tax stamp on a 3.50 Maxim silencer equated to $3,500 in 1934 dollars), many folks misunderstand the laws associated with owning one. Here are seven myths—and the seven corresponding truths—about silencer ownership.

Suppressors have been a hot topic in the industry of late—and something that NRA-ILA has been keeping an eye on for hunters, too. Among the hurdles they face though, is a general unfamiliarity from much of the hunting and shooting community. In hopes of turning that tide, the American Suppressor Association hosted a suppressor shoot during the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits outside Nashville, Tenn. last week. American Rifleman's Brian Sheetz had the opportunity to discuss the issue with Association President Knox Williams. Relive their discussion—and learn a few things—with the video embedded here.