Tex, did you see my "filter" post earlier? Folks will come up with some ideas, I tell ya.
No but will go back and find it
Can't find it
He's talking about the Fram-oil-filter-as-a-suppressor trick.
And yes, it does work, and yes, it's supposedly legal.
If it functions as a suppressor then it is a suppressor regardless of how it is made and it has to be licensed as such.
The adapter is registered as a suppressor.
Believe whatever you want to, don't matter to me because they are mostly worthless IMHO.
Firearms Verification
Gun Control Act Definitions
Silencer
18 U.S.C., § 921(A)(24)
The term “Firearm Silencer” or “Firearm Muffler” means any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm, including any combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for the use in assembling or fabricating a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, any part intended only for use in such assembly or fabrication.
Note: Any device that meets the definition as stipulated above in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(24) is also subject to controls of the National Firearms Act 26 U.S.C., Chapter 53.
I don't have feelings one way or the other, but I could make the legal case that if the adapter is registered as a silencer, it meets the requirements of the law. Whether the court would agree, no way to say.
Easy, read the code and that is why the word "parts" is in there but go for it and find out.
I did read the code. So here's my case.
1. It is clearly the intent to fabricate a device for suppression of report. So the adapter was duly registered as a suppressing device, and the excise was paid.
2. The oil filter was not solely intended only for use in a silencing device, but since it was used in this case for "fabricating a silencing assembly", it is subject to the law. However, since the filter cannot be deemed to be a silencing device without a means to attach it to a firearm, it is the adapter that is the critical component to silencing the firearm. That the adapter is unable, by itself, to silence the firearm is incidental to the law. Since the filter cannot silence the firearm without the adapter, registering either element as a silencing device ensures compliance, and whichever device is registered provides a legal umbrella to the other, since the assembly can only become a silencing device with both components.
3. The filter, in and of itself, has not been redesigned to be a silencing device. It has been repurposed. But this repurposing cannot be achieved without the adapter. The adaptor, therefore, is the logical locus of regulation, and having been duly registered in compliance to the law, whatever other components are attached to it to achieve it's potential are incidental to the law.
