And right here is the whole issue: But if you apply logic to the definition.... Thanks for the reference to the US code, that verbage is one of the things I had been reading---and re-reading----and re-re-reading. IMHO, all of us non-USgovt-lawyer-bureaucrat-types don't stand a chance of interpreting...

Very good point Beware of firing in an enclosed environment. I have been in several indoor ranges, and I understand what you are talking about and agree completely. Between the garage being as drafty as it is, and a notional idea for a tube to put the barrel through (with a fan adding a little pres...

Wouldn't that be what they call a "potato gun"? (No need to tell me, I know it isn't.) (Some of you guys could be a little more helpful. Hope you are having fun.) As to my original question, I could not imagine any way that my garage would qualify as a silencer, but I thought I should ask ...

FarmDadCO wrote:For Gawds sake don"t write any letters asking BATFE though

made me laugh

Clearly, it must be all those nasty guns. It couldn't possibly be all the mentally ill that have been turned loose from care facilities since then (or have never even been diagnosed or admitted in more recent years). Especially since it is now politically incorrect to call them crazy. And it surely ...

Hi, yes I am a new guy here, but I promise I have scanned through many pages of old posts (until I went cross-eyed) looking for answers already posted..... My question: If any device that muffles or reduces the sound of a firearm is considered a silencer/suppressor, if I shoot from inside my garage ...