Texas State to offer permits for gun silencers Sept 1

[MrPhotoGuyInc]

State to offer permits for gun silencers Sept. 1
May 16, 2012 7:17 a.m.


The state will begin offering permits for game hunters to use silencers on their guns, effective Sept. 1.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopted rules in March that permit the use of silencers for the hunting of alligators, game animals or game birds.

Such devices already were legal for the hunting of exotic animals, including feral hogs.

However, hunters will still have to apply for state permits to have and use silencers.

Longview gun dealer Bob Godell tells the Longview News-Journal the change is "long overdue."

Longview hunter Earl Ates, a lifelong National Rifle Association member, says he doubts the benefits of silent hunting, though, and worries about its use for poaching and other illegal activities.

He says silencers "can also go against making a humane kill."

Information from: Longview News-Journal, http://www.news-journal.com

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[rogerme]

Does Texas also require you to get a permit to use your rifle? what is the point behind requiring a permit to use a suppressor for hunting? I also have to ask what will the fee be??

[700PSS]

He says silencers "can also go against making a humane kill."

WTF?

[L1A1Rocker]

WTF does this mean?

hunters will still have to apply for state permits to have and use silencers.

Texas does NOT have a state permit requirement to HAVE a silencer.

[rogerme]

WTF does this mean?

hunters will still have to apply for state permits to have and use silencers.

Texas does NOT have a state permit requirement to HAVE a silencer.

FOR USE HUNTING. This was my issue.

[eastern_hunter]

Good grief ... that mean that non-residents are not going to allowed to hunt w cans? Going to apply to predators and non-game species?

[ronin111]

It looks like this is just an uninformed reporter. I can't find anything on the Texas Parks and Wildlife site about a license.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/r ... 0330b&utm_

The regulation change does not relieve any person of the obligation to comply with applicable federal, state, or local law governing the possession or use of firearm silencers. Firearms silencers are regulated under the National Firearms Act. They are legal for individuals to possess and use for lawful purposes in 39 states, including Texas. However, a prospective user must go through an application process administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which requires a Federal tax payment of $200 and a thorough criminal background check.

[eastern_hunter]

Always wise to have a copy of the Form 4 on your person when having a suppressor in the field.

[bofly]

just talked to the guys at Texas Parks and Wildlife, they said there are no permits, it's B.S.

[silencertalk]

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=8663514

Someone commented:

There is no such thing as a gun silencer. They are suppressors. If the AP reporter can't get that basic fact correct then what else is false in the story?

There are silencers. AAC makes and sells them. This site is even called silencertalk. Silencer is both a legal term and the name that Maxim called his product.

[bofly]

[quote="silencertalk"]http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=8663514

Someone commented:

That's the report I was asking about and I was told "They are wrong".

[doubloon]

Earl is a moron.

I am ashamed of my state.

[doubloon]

No longer ashamed, found a published correction.

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/cor ... 58722.html

I should have trusted what I understood originally.