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[Les]

Read Instruction "a" on the form. Silencers/suppressors are not listed. That said, it can help you if you run into an overzealous LEO to have the approved form.

It would certainly appear since suppressors aren't listed, permission isn't needed. Or did I miss something?

[explorecaves]

It would certainly appear since suppressors aren't listed, permission isn't needed. Or did I miss something?

There are reports all over the internet saying notification is all that is needed. Many will have the form filled out with them and just say it is in the mail...

[Josh]

You don't need anything for suppressors or AOWs, they just need to be legal where you're going.

[Texas]

I have actually called the ATF and asked similar questions on NFA items and they have been quite helpful. Have even received the response in writing.

[Les]

You don't need anything for suppressors or AOWs, they just need to be legal where you're going.

Found a thread on silencertalk that said the same thing. Just good piece of mind if I ever travel South for hogs.

[cory]

Reviving an old thread in light of the recent SCOTUS ruling. Has anyone heard anything about how the chevron deference ruling would affect this ATF rule?

[grayfox]

SCOTUS said "it is overturned." However, it went on to say that existing rulings are (at least for the time) left status quo. I take that to mean they did not automatically overturn all 18000+ rulings and court cases that rely on Chevron... but if challenged again, the feds cannot use chevron to support their case. Presumably, they could and probably should lose, but don't expect them to just roll over.
My take anyway, though not a lawyer.

[LRRPF52]

One of the stupid things you learn about the NFA is that this aspect of it was meant to hamper imaginary armies of criminals who ran around like John Dillinger. They didn’t like it that local LEOs were left in the dust by the few Midwest gangs using V8s, who would rob a bank, then speed away to another town, then go hide over State lines somewhere. Dillinger’s crew made a mockery of Hoover’s FBI doing this for about a year, and it really incensed him to no end.


John Dillinger’s Ford V8



Dillinger was getting his face plastered all over newspapers and even comics, while Hoover’s G-Men lost their popular appeal in J. Edgar’s eyes. So when Hoover filled AG Homer Cummings’ head with all these ideas about what was out there in the criminal underworld, this inter-State lines crossing issue was one of the legal challenges they wanted to address with their new crime bill (the NFA). NFA Hearings were in the Ways and Means Committee April 16, 18, and May 14, 15, and 16, 1934.

We are basically held to a 1930s unconstitutional set of infringements on our basic freedom of maneuver as a result, even though they gunned down Dillinger in the street on July 22, 1934, hunted down and ambushed Bonnie & Clyde May 23, 1934, and arrested or killed most of Ma Barker’s Gang by 1935. These were non-Mafia affiliated start-up gangsters in the Depression-era Midwest, so they had no protection within NYC/DC/Chicago/Baltimore/etc. like established organized crime families and there career politicians.