But not all silencers are created equal – some work better than others, offering varying degrees of sound reduction.Explore ...

The photos of the device immediately highlight the impracticality of deploying it or similar suppressors in combat.

From gun silencers to the child tax credit, there are several secluded provisions lurking in the Senate's version of sweeping Republican tax bill.

A silencer — or suppressor as gun right advocates like to call them — reduces the volume of a gunshot from a small-caliber firearm to around 110 decibels, the same level as a jackhammer or ...

For weeks, there has been an effort led by Second Amendment groups, including Gun Owners of America, to win approval of eliminating suppressor regulation.

Rep. Andrew Clyde, who owns a gun shop worth millions of dollars, said he “asked” for the tax breaks for gun silencers in Donald Trump’s tax bill.

After receiving a search warrant for Penhollow’s home, officers found other firearms, ammunition, a sound suppressor attached to a sub-legal length barrel, a CO2 container used as an explosive ...

Investigators say they then found a shotgun, a revolver, a rifle with a sound suppressor attached, another explosive device, and a partially home built Sten submachine gun in Penhollow’s home.

Legality of firearm silencer or suppressor ownership: Legal Overall gun law strength grade: F Firearm death rate in 2022: 25.5 per 100,000 people — 4th highest of 50 states (1,278 total fatalities) ...

The Justice Department is evaluating whether to defend the federal government’s restrictions on gun silencers that have been in place since the 1930s as part of President Donald Trump’s order ...

After receiving a search warrant for Penhollow’s home, officers found other firearms, ammunition, a sound suppressor attached to a sub-legal length barrel, a CO2 container used as an explosive ...

In May, a Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling “hit kits” comprising untraceable ghost guns, silencers and subsonic ammunition, which is quieter than regular rounds.