It wasn’t all that long ago when only the gun geeks owned suppressors. You might have seen one on occasion at the range, but they weren’t very popular. More than anything else, it was probably the 300 ...

Efforts to weaken the federal law regarding firearm silencers put public safety at risk. For more than 80 years, silencers have been subject to robust regulatory oversight by the Bureau of Alcohol, ...

New Jersey Democrats Sen. Bob Menendez and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman on Thursday introduced legislation to ban gun silencers. The 2021 Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act, which Menendez ...

Silencers, also called suppressors, are tube-shaped devices that, when screwed into the muzzle of a gun, slow the decompression of gases that propel a bullet forward, thus reducing the “pop” sound of ...

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Thousands of ads on Facebook and Instagram have promoted “fuel filters” using videos demonstrating how they can be easily modified into gun silencers—a process that, without federal approval, could ...

Firearm silencers could soon get deregulated if the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cleared the House earlier Thursday, prevails in the Senate. Buried deep in the megabill is a provision that would ...

As passed by the House, the FY25 reconciliation bill, H.R. 1, § 112029, would amend the National Firearms Act (NFA), by striking "any silencer" from the definition of "firearm." It also provides that ...

In 2019, a gunman shot and killed 12 people in a Virginia Beach municipal building. His semiautomatic weapon was fitted with a silencer, making the gunshots sound, to one survivor, “like a nail gun.” ...