Update on the airgun silencer issue

by Tom Gaylord

For more than 10 years I have been advising U.S. airgunners to go easy on installing silencers on their guns. I have recently written an article that addresses the specifics of the law governing silencers for Pyramyd Air, but it isn't up on their website as of the date of this posting. They are extremely busy with the buyout of Airgun Express and I think that will dominate their work for many more weeks, but when that silencer article does go up, it will walk you through the law and how I view it.

Many of you know that I bought a legal firearm silencer to write about the process for Shotgun News. That article was published last year, as part of my "What Can You Do With a 10/22?" series.

I get calls from federal and state law enforcement agencies from time to time regarding airgun laws and various technical aspects of the guns, themselves. A few months ago, I was called regarding a felon who had shipped a big bore airgun with a removable silencer through the mail. I'm now following the court case as it unfold in Massachusetts.

As I've always said, I prefer to learn about the law through news agencies rather than from the defendant's table!

This is required reading!

Airgun silencer case