Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
USA?
National politics.
They're an NFA item for everybody.
Several states they're banned completely so we can't even do the paperwork, pay the money and wait for permission.
It would suck to have national rules that were unfair to several(populous) states.
Plus I understand that they do somewhat act as a brake.
It is not the braking action that is frowned on. If there were not the legal issues, suppressors would would be okayed in a heartbeat. Hearing damage is the problem with regular muzzle brakes. All shooting disciplines except PRS and (I think) Long Range BR forbid them with good reason. Even the guys are going to wise up some day.
Sixty years of shooting finally took my left ear in spite of using the best hearing protection available at any given time.
There are traditionalists who look at brakes as cheating rather than dealing with full recoil.Makes sense with states that don’t allow them.
why is is frowned if it works as a muzzle brake?
I shot F CLass informally quite a bit but never dove too much into these types of rules.
A lot more than "somewhat". My 300 Winchester magnum mile gun shoots 230s at 2950 fps. and the recoil is like a 243 with 100s. I can't even imagine what it would be like shooting it un-suppressed. The recoil reduction is immensePlus I understand that they do somewhat act as a brake.
If anything, suppressors should be encouraged to promote hearing safety as much as possible.
What's your point?The rule about absorbing recoil is that anything which does, gets counted in the rifle’s weight.
That is the theory behind not letting a rest securely clamp the fore end, but not weighing the rest.
By that reasoning, a suppressor gets weighed, just like a Harris bipod securely attached gets weighed, and it’s just kind of lucky (I think, as worded) that 4 pounds of dirt around a Harris that is stuck in the ground, which they all do, doesn’t get weighed.