Could you sell suppressor cores as modern art pieces? if you label them as such, and told people to never ever even think about putting some piping over it and attach it to anything. Wouldn’t that be protected by the first amendment, cuz who is to say the cores themselves aren’t just art.
Ive seen people online get v& for selling cores as muzzle breaks “with good tones” (lel) pretty stupid, i know… but selling them as art is not as dumb as that because you’re government certainly can’t set legal lPrecedents for a harmless piece of art, as far as what matirals you can an can not use as a work of art. The libshit comunity would lose there shit if there was a Legal precedent that could possibly be used to prevent them from using dirty tampons an vomit in there edgy feminist art. Right?
those are not illegal until you mount them on a firearm, dumbass nigger
Jacob Clark
Actually, that seems legit. I mean, maybe not for two things: the design is patented / otherwise known as specifically a suppressor core, and/or you don't actually get a musical "ring" or tone.
But if you made up a new "core" ? and all your advertisement is YT vids showing off the nifty 'ring'? maybe a comparison of subsonic tone and supersonic ring.
I dunno. I don't think the batfé is required to be selectively stupid like that. Maybe if you sold them with no threads, and make sure to quell your customers from telling each other on your forum that normal 5/8th tap & die sets let you mount the "art" … but as pictured? No, your BS will be called, and your dog's virginity called upon.
Aiden Evans
This makes me wonder. Would it be possible to design a muzzle break that takes part of the flash and modulates it up into a frequency that is inaudible to humans? Sure, it could still damage hearing, and it won't change the fact that there is a shockwave, but it could help somewhat.
Benjamin Campbell
I think i remember SIG or HK trying to import a gun with built in permanently attached suppressor baffles so that you can just fill in form whatever and put a tube over it, getting an integrally suppressed weapon without much hassle, but it wasn't allowed for import for some bullshit reasons in the usual ATF style.
Gabriel Sullivan
I forget where I read about it, but a few years ago I saw something online about a DARPA suppressor that worked sort of like a dogwhistle. It raised the majority of the guns sound into a frequency that was inaudible to human ears.
Mechanically, I have no idea how something like that would work. And the ATF would almost definitely regulate them like normal suppressors if not outright ban them. Although anti-gun people already think suppressors work like that, so it might not prompt any public complaining from them if products like that hit the market. Hmm.
On the flip side, Ive seen industrial studies showing that inaudible frequencies still cause hearing damage if they're "loud" enough (similar general principle as invisible lasers still causing blindness). So there might not be any actual benefit to hobbyists in terms of hearing protection, and it might even cause a ton of hearing damage that otherwise wouldnt have happened.
If the government has them, I'm sure theyre just withholding the technology for our own good :^)
Dylan Morales
They’ve tried this and it’s more complicated an larger than a suppressor, and didn’t work very good.
Michael Bennett
A gunfire noise is just white noise, it doesn't have a specific frequency. You can however use the initial shockwave to start a tuned oscillator that will produce a specific frequency. Objects of any shape can do this but with anything more complicated than a fork it becomes nontrivial to machine it to exact audio specifications. Note that it will need plenty of room to physically oscillate, thus requiring large gaps, so it will not make a good suppressor.
