Please contact your state's congresspeople in support of the Hearing Protection Act. Currently getting a suppressor/silencer involves paying $200, filing with the ATF (including fingerprints, photos, and detailed personal information), and waiting 6+ months. The bill would make suppressors the same as a standard Title I firearm, meaning you go in, do a NICS check, fill out the 4473, and then leave.

Even though the chances of it passing are slim, it will be very good to get the issue on the radar pre-election. It actually has support from both parties and it would be very nice to be able to get something positive out of the current GOP majority. This page has a way to contact electronically, but a letter, or phone call, would be far better. If you realistically know you wouldn't do the latter two, just do the electronic form.

This could be the first step in dismantling the National Firearms Act. Suppressors are a safety device, and never should have been there in the first place. They don't make guns Hollywood-stylw quiet, they simply lower the sound to near-hearing-safe levels with supersonic loads, and they are still noisy even with subsonic loads. They're considered courteous and are expected to be used in much of Europe. If this somehow succeeded I'd imagine SBRs/SBSs would be next.


http://americansuppressorassociation.com/hearing-protection-act/