I think DesertSilver has a good suggestion. If you have a 22lr suppressor which might be adapted it would be worth at least a try to see how well it works to quiet an airgun. It avoids giving the impression you have a device which needs a tax stamp and doesn't have one.
It is completely factual that the NFA only applies to powder burners, not airguns. But what has made this a grey area is the 3 letter agency has a published opinion that a device which would muffle the sound from a powder burner for even one shot is under their jurisdiction. Their opinion is not the same as a law but if they enforced it as they seem to have at least tried on DonnyFL (speculation) but fighting it could be expensive. The position is stupid, a potato meets their one shot requirement, but that doesn't mean it would be cheap to prove how stupid it is or that their position is inconsisten with the law.
There is a reviewer of airguns for hard air that is worried enough he will not use a detachable moderator. Some are not detachable, like the Notos, and they would seem to be safer (safer in the sense of the three letter agency thinking they are an issue). I use printed moderators in the shroud of my P35s for several reasons including this "issue". Printed moderators are inexpensive, that is my main reason, and putting them in the shroud protects them from damage. It seems like there would be no easy way to mount them on a PB. Because they are plastic I don't think they could withstand the pressure and temperature of a PB but I'll never use one on a PB to find out. There are also detachable printed moderators which would seem to have the same "fragility" defense.
I don't want to wish anything bad to happen to DonnyFL but I was kind of hoping their difficulty might clear up the instability introduced by the three letter agency position. Apparently that is not something either party wanted in that case. Did the three letter agency think they would loose? DonnyFL is still selling their moderators.
It will be interesting to see how the TX PB moderator case turns out. If TX wins, the three letter agency may not be able to regulate even PB moderators which stay in the state they were made.
It is completely factual that the NFA only applies to powder burners, not airguns. But what has made this a grey area is the 3 letter agency has a published opinion that a device which would muffle the sound from a powder burner for even one shot is under their jurisdiction. Their opinion is not the same as a law but if they enforced it as they seem to have at least tried on DonnyFL (speculation) but fighting it could be expensive. The position is stupid, a potato meets their one shot requirement, but that doesn't mean it would be cheap to prove how stupid it is or that their position is inconsisten with the law.
There is a reviewer of airguns for hard air that is worried enough he will not use a detachable moderator. Some are not detachable, like the Notos, and they would seem to be safer (safer in the sense of the three letter agency thinking they are an issue). I use printed moderators in the shroud of my P35s for several reasons including this "issue". Printed moderators are inexpensive, that is my main reason, and putting them in the shroud protects them from damage. It seems like there would be no easy way to mount them on a PB. Because they are plastic I don't think they could withstand the pressure and temperature of a PB but I'll never use one on a PB to find out. There are also detachable printed moderators which would seem to have the same "fragility" defense.
I don't want to wish anything bad to happen to DonnyFL but I was kind of hoping their difficulty might clear up the instability introduced by the three letter agency position. Apparently that is not something either party wanted in that case. Did the three letter agency think they would loose? DonnyFL is still selling their moderators.
It will be interesting to see how the TX PB moderator case turns out. If TX wins, the three letter agency may not be able to regulate even PB moderators which stay in the state they were made.
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