Aaaaak, meant to say Form 1 for DIYing a can . . . .

Geoff PR,

And manufacturers should be able to sell/recycle the titanium tailings (from milling rods to make baffles) for a similar price per pound that they paid for the solid rod. So, the cost of the titanium overall should be a small fraction of the total price.

“But what I really want to see is a market for parts that can be used to assemble integrally suppressed weapons.”

Shotgun companies like Mossburg making integrally-suppressed home defense guns are gonna sell like hotcakes.

That, and those cheap Chinese ‘Fuel Filters’ being imported by pop-up silencer companies who will only serialize them and re-sell them to people like me with a drill press and a tap.

There’s gonna be a *lot* of 2A news about to flood the gun blogs like SNW…

The raw *creativity* we are gonna see is gonna be amazing… 🙂

They only craft the baffle from rod, the body they turn from standard tube diameters.

To say nothing of Titanium powder used to fabricate laser-sintered (DMSL) suppressors…

What I expect we’ll also see is a glut of inexpensive parts kits becoming available, such that many people will just Form 4 their cans (especially .22 rimfire cans). Indeed, I can see places like Silencer Shop or Capitol Armory having a program where they help you do the Form 4, and then when it comes in they hand you the parts kit (such that there is no question that you are legally allowed to have / assemble them), and even do the engraving for you.

But what I really want to see is a market for parts that can be used to assemble integrally suppressed weapons. Imagine an integrally-suppressed, magazine-fed 12 gauge SBS. Probably not too difficult to engineer the retrofit kit, and would make for an ideal home defense weapon. Or an oversized slide / barrel that can be slapped onto a G17 frame to make it integrally-suppressed. Or the ported barrel / shroud / baffles for an AR upper.

Btw
I look forward to introducing as many children as possible to suppressed guns. They will have no fear.

And that really does terrify the gun grabbers.

Semi-automatic guns are worthless if you don’t know how to clear a malfunction. I tell folks if you’re not going to take training classes and practice regularly.

Then it’s best to buy a revolver.
Fortunately for this family. Criminals also don’t learn how to clear a malfunction as well.

Charter Arms and Taurus both have reliable low cost 5 and 6 shot firearms.

”
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According to investigators, 44-year-old George Standifur of Elkhorn City entered a private residence while armed and made threats toward the occupants. Family members told troopers that Standifur first attempted to shoot the male homeowner in the head, but the firearm malfunctioned. The homeowner then retrieved his own firearm and shot Standifur in the leg.

Despite being wounded, Standifur allegedly turned his gun toward a woman in the home and attempted to fire again, but the weapon again failed to discharge. The family managed to force him out of the house and called 911.
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Ok, twice the bad guys gun would not fire… that’s a little of Powerball jackpot winning lucky right there for the family. But personally, I would not have counted on the bad guys gun to not fire a third time – he was clearly intending murder and showed he was not going to stop trying with the second time the gun did not fire. I would not have shot him in the leg, but if single shot to the leg intended or not in this case it was a big gamble by not shooting in such a manner as to stop the threat (cold) for what was obviously a dedicated attacker engaged in an on-going murder attempt and just shooting in the leg pretty much lets such a threat continue at least for a while as shown here. Thankfully though, the bad guys victims survived.

(also note, basically: this is also why you do not use ‘shoot to wound’ as your defense strategy. You never know if wounding only will be enough or not – so you shoot to stop the threat and you may only have one chance to stop the threat so the best chance is shoot to stop and not trying to pick places to wound especially if the threat is in motion. If that ‘stop’ results in un-aliving the threat then that’s what happens, but the reality is the majority (~97%) of violent attackers who get shot by their victims enough to stop the threat do actually survive.)

https://www.usacarry.com/homeowner-shoots-armed-intruder-after-suspects-gun-misfires-during-alleged-attack/