texas considering 'sound suppressors' on hunting rifles

[Chopped54]

Give me a suppressor for my 6mm. PLEASE! I like hearing.

Yep!
I have permanent hearing loss that the ENT doc traced back to the db consistent with gun shots....

[CJ]

A homemade can for a .22 doesn't take long to make.

There are ATF agents on this board so you know.

[Darren M]

"If you can't hear other hunters and don't know they are on property, near your hunting area, you certainly have greater risk of a hunting accident," Hightower said.

For some reason this angers me. If I don't know someone is on "a property" that I am hunting on then either them or I are a poacher. (I hunt on my Dad's place in Brady Tx.) Also, he makes it sound like you can tell, EXACTLY where someone is because they do not have a suppressor. Well.... what if that person never fires a shot??? Still don't know they are there... or are they there at all?? His logic isn't logical at all.

Give me a suppressor for my 6mm. PLEASE! I like hearing.

[Sleeper]

Most poaching happens in the middle of the night. Depending on the location, like where I am nobody would ever know.

[Downs]

A homemade can for a .22 doesn't take long to make.

[Dacotua]

A Poacher won't use a Silencer, they use .22LR's or a BOW. (You can not hear a bow.)

[Sleeper]

legal in Kansas

[Downs]

Read on article on line a while back of a guy using a spear.


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[bigshoe]

Let see

Poachers already use suppressors. They don't care about the law already so why care about using a suppressor. The whole poaching thing brought up by the Game Wardens should be considered a dead point as it's not relevant.

We're using firearms to hunt animals. I don't think using suppressors makes it any less sporting. In-fact if you want to be "sporting" go hand to hand with a whitetail while using a rock or knife. Now that would be sporting..........and entertaining.

I know a few guys that hunt pigs with KNIVES! Fucking nuts

[CJ]

Let see

Poachers already use suppressors. They don't care about the law already so why care about using a suppressor. The whole poaching thing brought up by the Game Wardens should be considered a dead point as it's not relevant.

We're using firearms to hunt animals. I don't think using suppressors makes it any less sporting. In-fact if you want to be "sporting" go hand to hand with a whitetail while using a rock or knife. Now that would be sporting..........and entertaining.

bare hands, naked. Carnal.

[Downs]

Let see

Poachers already use suppressors. They don't care about the law already so why care about using a suppressor. The whole poaching thing brought up by the Game Wardens should be considered a dead point as it's not relevant.

We're using firearms to hunt animals. I don't think using suppressors makes it any less sporting. In-fact if you want to be "sporting" go hand to hand with a whitetail while using a rock or knife. Now that would be sporting..........and entertaining.

[dee]

Very true it was opened for public comments on the TOES website about a month ago.

[bulldog896]

There are so many inaccuracies in that I don't know where to start but what do you expect it's in the news

[Lason]

Im all for anything that would make NFA items more mainstream and introduce them to the public as a saftey item rather than a "silencer" used to kill people in the middle of the night or some other dumbass stigmata.

[CJ]

The only reason I DO NOT want suppressors to be legal in hunting is the NFA Division of the ATF has said it could double the approval process from 6 months to over a year.

Now if the ATF hired a lot of reviewers and cut down the process time, I would be ok with it.

I just dont want to wait over a year for a machinegun because of a bunch of suppressors

Hopefully it would result in the time getting cut down. Texas is already the biggest NFA state, almost as many NFA items as the rest of the country combined.