Have silencers been banned too?

[Braveheart]

I heard silencers have been banned as well as machine guns a few weeks ago. Yesterday I came across an internet article saying that if you start a trust they are legal. I just became a ct recently and was looking forward to purchasing one. Does anyone have any definitive answer or are we still waiting for the dust to settle?

Thanks

 

[AllaSnackbah]

i dont think so, threaded barrels however...

 

[xtry51]

Suppressors have not been banned, but you need to own the threaded barrel before the new ban date and register it.

If you have that you can still purchase a can for it.

If I were you I'd take that money and put it aside for a move to NH or out of the NE altogether. I've got less than two months remaining in my CT sentence.

 

[slap shot]

does that threaded barrel not apply to .22 pistols? i saw one for sale with a threaded barrel in a well known LGS.

 

[xtry51]

does that threaded barrel not apply to .22 pistols? i saw one for sale with a threaded barrel in a well known LGS.

I'm not 100% sure. I know the new AWB does not apply to 22LR guns, I didn't pay much attention to the pistol section.

 

[AllaSnackbah]

Suppressors have not been banned, but you need to own the threaded barrel before the new ban date and register it.

If you have that you can still purchase a can for it.

If I were you I'd take that money and put it aside for a move to NH or out of the NE altogether. I've got less than two months remaining in my CT sentence.

This. Where you going man?

 

[xtry51]

Southern NH. And when I get there I'm going to buy an AK and put a bayonet on my AR. Then I'm going to take a giant poster board and do a quick math problem with how much less ill be paying in taxes. Then I'm going to take a picture of all three and make it into a thank you card and mail one to each person in CT who voted for the new ban.

**** them.

 

[ColdDayInHell]

Southern NH. And when I get there I'm going to buy an AK and put a bayonet on my AR. Then I'm going to take a giant poster board and do a quick math problem with how much less ill be paying in taxes. Then I'm going to take a picture of all three and make it into a thank you card and mail one to each person in CT who voted for the new ban.

**** them.

I quote Dexter here: "look at what you've done! All the lives you destroyed!"

 

[dcmdon]

MGs are fine.

Silencers are fine.

As others have said, handguns are now an AW if they have a threaded bbl.

I have threaded bbls for my Glock 17, 19, and 34. I plan to register all of them as AWs. My goal is to bump my number of AWs up as high as I can.
Just as an exercise. I figure I can get close to 100 if I work things right. Remember, that "any part that can be used to convert a firearm to an assault weapon, is an assault weapon". (I'm paraphrasing). So by that logic, the barrel can be considered to be an AW. (Unless its purchased as a replacement part for an already registered AW. This is settled law as its been adjudicated with machine gun spare parts.)

But by that logic, every threaded bbl, every AR mag release button (could be used to convert a fixed mag rifle to a detachable mag rifle), every flash hider, every pistol grip, is an AW. ALL OF THESE ITEMS ARE AWs, in and of themselves.

So even if you don't intend to register your ARs. Register grips, and all that crap. Burry them in data.

With respect to .22s. The exemption given to rimfire is only in the rifle portion of the law. So a .22 pistol with a threaded bbl is an AW.

Oh shoot. I just realized that my 22/45 Lite has a threaded bbl and is now an AW. Ha. I better spend the next few months thinking of this pretty hard because I don't want to miss anything.

Here's an other interesting thought. I have a threaded bbl for my G19 because its a great suppressor gun. Not as muzzle heavy as a 17 or 34. But its also one of my main carry guns. If I register it as an AW, I can no longer carry it because as an AW it must be transported unloaded.

****ing ridiculous.

 

[BossHarley]

I'm not 100% sure. I know the new AWB does not apply to 22LR guns, I didn't pay much attention to the pistol section.

22 pistols were not exempted as rifles were, so I would say you are out of luck for threaded 22 barrels. Even my match pistol is an AW (magazine outside of pistol grip) - its one dangerous weapon.....

 

[travis]

Suppressors have not been banned, but you need to own the threaded barrel before the new ban date and register it.

If you have that you can still purchase a can for it.

If I were you I'd take that money and put it aside for a move to NH or out of the NE altogether. I've got less than two months remaining in my CT sentence.

Why do you guys always forget Maine. We are gun friendly all guns welcome here.

 

[xtry51]

I didn't forget Maine. Just too far north for our jobs. Also I already have friends in NH that have kids close to mine in age. Makes the transition easier when you move and already know people.

 

[AllaSnackbah]

imho the whole northeast is screwed. its only a matter of time before vermont becomes new york, new hampshire becomes massachusetts, etc etc etc. the liberal locusts are always on the move.

 

[drgrant]

imho the whole northeast is screwed. its only a matter of time before vermont becomes new york, new hampshire becomes massachusetts, etc etc etc. the liberal locusts are always on the move.

I disagree, its going to take them a LOT longer to infect the upper part of New England. Even in VT and ME, which have gobs of socialism, local pols are not exactly eager to enact overreaching gun laws. Gun culture in those states is a lot healthier than it is below them.

-Mike

 

[dcmdon]

VT is a really curiously strange and in some ways wonderfully weird place.

Libertarian leaning Federalist liberals. Seriously. Strange.

Remember, most of the New Yorkers who own property up there don't vote there. They also aren't likely to retire there. Boca is a more likely destination.

 

[AllaSnackbah]

I disagree, its going to take them a LOT longer to infect the upper part of New England. Even in VT and ME, which have gobs of socialism, local pols are not exactly eager to enact overreaching gun laws. Gun culture in those states is a lot healthier than it is below them.

-Mike

i really hope your right. i thought about moving to VT or NH but when i took a trip to VT (granted it was kind of a yuppie area we visited) i just got the feeling like "this place is gonna get overrun". i feel the safest bet would be out west, but you never know, i have a friend who lives in henderson nv and he says the locusts are destroying nv pretty quickly, and arizona looks great, but all the libtards retire there, and with senators like mccaintard who even needs liberals? are the liberal locusts a national pandemic?