You can build your own silencer IF you are in a state that allows individual
ownership of one. You fill out the form (ATF F 5320.1) and have it
checked/signed by a local CLEO and add the check for $200. After receiving
the approval back from ATF, you can then build the device. A licensed
manufacturer can build a device and has 24 hours to file the forms.
Respectfully,
Ron Moore

"Larry Fishel" wrote in message
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I'd have to check with the people in the ATF and my local SO before
I'd
consider rolling my own silencer. They're not complex, but I'd need
to
make sure everything is cool before I did anything resembling that.

I think you would find the process a little onerous but I could be
wrong. I
just don't know your tolerance level for whatever bureaucratic falderal
is
involved to make any pronouncement. I am sure you would have to jump
through
hoops.

Far as I know, it's a letter from the local SO stating that you're not a
schmuck (no problem there), and pay your tax stamp to the boys in the
sunglasses, and you're good to go. I just have better things to do with
that 200 dollars, for something that would essentially be a pointless
toy. (I have 30 acres in a rural part of Wisconsin, and the neighbors
don't mind when I shoot - more than once, they've come over to join in).

That's to BUY one. IIRC, you need a manufacturer's license to make your
own...