With the cost of a tax stamp for many (but not quite all) NFA items going from $200 to $0, it comes as no surprise that many companies have been getting into the suppressor business. What is surprising, though, is which companies have taken the leap in the run-up to SHOT. The more the merrier, as more options for consumers is always a good thing. EOTECH and Diamondback are two big names who’ve jumped into the business with both feet.
Diamondback’s suppressor line is called Ventra, and at launch it includes three cans in the most popular calibers, 5.56, .30 and .22. The suppressors are manufactured using Inconel 718 and 17-4 stainless steel. The former is a nickel-chromium molybdenum superalloy that’s capable of handling the high temps of live fire (it’s also very corrosion-resistant and durable). Diamondback hasn’t cut any corners with the engineering of the Ventra line.
The Ventra 5.56 (DBS556i) is designed specifically for the 5.56 NATO round. That means, of course, it can also be run with 223 Remington. It’s full-auto rated and designed to reduce backpressure. That means reduced felt recoil and less muzzle rise (and don’t come at me saying 223 Rem/5.56 NATO don’t have any, because they do). This model is compact and has an overall length of 5.336-inches without the mount. Diameter is 1.55-inches and weight is 12.0 ounces.
Of course there’s a .30-cal suppressor in this initial release, and thank goodness because I do love my .30s. The Ventra 30 CAL (DBS30i) is rated for 300 Remington Ultra Magnum. It measures 6.05-inches in length and weighs 16.0-ounces, meaning it won’t add unwieldy length or weight to your rifle. This one’s also full-auto rated and has a muzzle thread pitch of 5/8-24.
If you’re waiting to hear about a rimfire option, here you go. The Diamondback Ventra 22 CAL (DBS22i) is full auto rated and compatible with 5.7x28mm and .22-caliber. It’s 5.5-inches long and weighs 5.8-ounces. All of Diamonback’s Ventra suppressors are Made in America and protected with a Cerakote Armor Black finish.
MSRP are $575 for the .22, $998 for the 5.56 can and $1148 for the .30 cal.
The EOTECH DCBL series of suppressors also joins the field with three models: DCBL 9PCC, DCBL 762, and DCBL 556.
EOTECH’s suppressors are made with Grade 5 Titanium, an alloy that offers a stellar strength-to-weight ratio and fantastic corrosion resistance. All the suppressors are finished with high-temp Cerakote for resistance to wear and to extend their overall life. These models aren’t full-auto rated, so keep that in mind.
The DCBL 9PCC is designed for superior performance on PCCs (pistol caliber carbines) and isn’t meant for handgun use. It’s great to have a PCC-dedicated option, because that means it performs noticeably better than many multi-caliber/multi-platform models. This model is 7.0-inches without the mount and 1.6-inches in diameter. The suppressor body weighs 9.3-ounces. Minimum barrel length for this suppressor is 10.3-inches, but according to EOTECH that restriction only applies when using rifle cartridges. The DCBL 9PCC has a 0.4-inch bore and is compatible with 8.6 Blackout as its max caliber.
For those with AR-15s (and let’s face it, that’s most of us) there’s the DCBL 556. This model’s max caliber is the 22 Creedmoor and the minimum barrel length is 10.3-inches. At 7.1-inches in length and 13.7-ounces in weight, it’s fairly streamlined and balances well. This is the suppressor to get for cleaner shooting and overall improved weapon handling (think less felt recoil, reduced muzzle rise). There are a lot of pros to suppressors beyond sound suppression.
EOTECH’s suppressor lineup wraps up with a .30-cal suppressor, because of course it does. The DCBL 762 is 8.0-inches long without the mount included and weighs in at 17.4-ounces for the suppressor body alone and 22.8-ounces with the hub included. This is a slightly heftier model, but not prohibitively so. The max caliber for the DCBL 762 is 300 PRC. Decibel rating is listed as 132.3, but like with all suppressors that will vary by ammunition used and gun being run at the time. Minimal barrel length for this one is also 10.3-inches.
MSRP for the EOTECH DCBL suppressors isn’t known at this time.
“MSRP are $575 for the .22,…”
Gonna be hard to justify those prices for a rimfire can in this new era of sound suppression…
ATF Quietly Walks Back Gun Denials After Years of Abuse.
“ATF has issued an Interim Final Rule revising the federal definition of ‘unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance’ under 27 CFR 478.11—directly tied to the firearm prohibition in 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3). This matters for gun owners because the previous definition allowed NICS denials based on single-incident ‘inferences,’ including a single admission of drug use, a single positive drug test, or a single misdemeanor drug conviction in the prior year. ATF now says the definition must require evidence of regular, ongoing use over an extended period, and it removes the old examples that triggered automatic denials. In this video, we break down the proposed changes, what it means for Second Amendment rights, how NICS background checks may change, and why ATF itself acknowledges constitutional concerns with the old approach.”
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Lying and dishonesty and disingenuous and twisting reality to fit the distorted narrative of reality in their minds and being confirmation biased and ignoring context and violence is an inherent trait of the mentally ill left wingers: Sorry To Break Up Your Narrative About Renee Good, Lefties, But I’ve Got Some News.
“Since the unfortunate, yet predictable, death of Renee Good on January 7 for committing assault with a deadly weapon by ramming her 4,000-pound SUV into an armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, a persistent lie has been told about her backstory. It’s likely that the left and their media allies believe eliding this part of her past somehow burnishes Good’s leftist credentials — as if ramming her car into a federal officer weren’t radical enough to convince them.
If you look closely, however, the story is changing. The narrative about Good’s later-in-life lesbian ‘marriage’ is quickly evaporating, given an old Irish goodbye by the news media. That doesn’t mean the media have corrected the record, but they have begun to quietly make the inaccurate portrayal of her marital status disappear.
Thanks to independent journalist Julie Kelly, we learn that not only was Good not married to her lesbian partner, but that she legally changed her name to match her paramour’s last name — not through marriage, but via an old-fashioned World B. Free, Metta World Peace, Chad Ochocinco, Snoop Dogg–style name change. ‘Good’ is a great brand name.
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Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
We’ve searched marriage records in several states and there is no evidence that Renee Good and Becca Good were married.
Renee Good petitioned for a name change in 2023 so she could share the same last name as her ‘partner.’
So Becca Good is not her ‘wife.’
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‘An attorney representing Renee Good’s estate acknowledged in an interview in the Washington Post that Becca Good was not her wife,’
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[note: Becca is a lesbian ‘gold digger’. She has a history of latching on to women and then using them to get what she wants. In this case she wanted to have a ‘child’, and latched on to Renee because Renee had custody of her own child she had before she decided she was a lesbian. Becca has made overtures to attempt to lay claim to Renee’s six-year-old boy but has no legal claim and the child will most likely go to the grand parents as they do have a legal claim and want the child to come live with them. Becca was not a ‘wife’ nor is she a ‘widow’ as the left wing media claimed (now some of them walking that lie back), and as Becca and fellow mentally ill left wingers claimed publicly AND in soliciting donations for a ‘go fund me’ type thing thus perpetrated a fraud. Minnesota does not recognize common-law marriage, Becca and Renee were never legally married in Minnesota or anywhere else.]
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Seriously, its time to start thinking about just shooting these mentally ill left wingers when they show up.
There have been overt acts of violence—riots and stormings of hotels, mass attacks on people in cars, and even beating one counter-protester into unconsciousness—most of the terrorism comes in the form of intimidation, threats of violence, and randomly stopping people in the streets to demand proof they are not ICE.
For example:
ht* tps://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/2012889849464754418 [had they approached my car and done this I would have shot them, this was literally an intentional violent attack and car-jacking in progress]
ht* tps://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/2012638798614536241
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Left wing violence – more Minnesota Trans urge violence & domestic terrorism: Minnesota Trans Rep. Leigh Finke Demands Escalation – Keep Storming Churches to Force ICE Out of State. [note: In case there are no history buffs in the audience – these left wingers are using the same play book tactics that Hitler used in Nazi Germany and Mao used in China and the KKK used here in the U.S. – they are literally the modern day incarnation of Nazi, Fascism, and Communism down to their ‘brown shirt’ and Nazi gestapo tactics in the streets.
ht* tps://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/01/20/leigh-finke-encourages-protestors-to-continue-disrupting-church-n2424186