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Thread: LEGAL Oil can suppressor

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    First would like to say have no knowledge of suppressors and laws there in. But if they approved said item, wouldn't that have some sort of legal precedent? If not its overall legal status, but its uses and parts or whatever/however they set that stuff up.? Personally I don't get the silent appeal, always been a rocker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lunchbox View Post
    First would like to say have no knowledge of suppressors and laws there in. But if they approved said item, wouldn't that have some sort of legal precedent? If not its overall legal status, but its uses and parts or whatever/however they set that stuff up.? Personally I don't get the silent appeal, always been a rocker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd.K View Post
    You can't change the tube of a silencer, even if the serial number is on the end.

    It also may make the spare filter you have in the garage for your truck an unregistered silencer part.
    Out of morbid curiosity if their device had an outer tube and the oil can was simply treated as a baffle device would that be safer?

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    I wonder how awkward that would feel having such a bulky can on the end of the rifle!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grizzly16 View Post
    Out of morbid curiosity if their device had an outer tube and the oil can was simply treated as a baffle device would that be safer?
    Nope, same difference legally.

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    they work very well. when using it on a rifle the sights can be used.
    i have shot 308, 762x39 and 223 out of them and they work great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd.K View Post
    You can't change the tube of a silencer, even if the serial number is on the end.

    It also may make the spare filter you have in the garage for your truck an unregistered silencer part.
    Correct. Even the manufacturer of this "suppressor" sells the serialized adapter with a serialized oil filter. You'd have to be an SOT or manufacturer to have spare oil filters if you owned one of these.

    Regardless, considering how for not much more you can purchase a quality rimfire or centerfire pistol suppressor, the idea is a novelty one at best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 6933 View Post
    I wouldn't touch one with a 10ft. pole. I don't look good in stripes.
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    I wouldn't waste a $200 tax stamp on that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by QuietShootr View Post
    ATF has ruled repeatedly in the past that you can't possess suppressor components (such as wipes or sacrificial baffles) outside a registered tube. An oil filter is just an oil filter, until ATF decides that owning one in conjunction with one of these adapters is constructive possession of unregistered suppressor parts. And once a shot has been fired through the oil filter, it's definitely a suppressor part, so that leaves ATF a nice big loophole to butt**** somebody for possession of unregistered suppressor parts.

    Buy one if you want, but just be aware you are vulnerable to ATF shenanigans, and maybe even have to surrender it like they did with the RPB MAC Coke-bottle adapters in the 80s. Only this time they'll have a real list of everyone that has one, since they'll be stamped.

    Bad idea, IMO. But do what you want.
    This ATF letter (http://www.titleii.com/bardwell/atf_letter66.txt) says that wipes are OK to replace.


    In regard to the two parts in your cited example, we consider a
    baffle to be a silencer, but a wipe, which is usually nothing more
    than a rubber or plastic disc with a hole in it, is generally not
    considered to be a silencer. Thus an individual owner could
    replace a wipe.
    Last edited by CAR-AR-M16; 07-09-12 at 15:18.

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