I used to intern with a Class II FFL precision rifle builder who also manufactured some NFA items and no joke, you can literally make a good quality (albeit rough finished) suppressor for under $100 provided you have a lathe. You can make even cheaper wipe suppressors for close to $50 out of pipe tubing you find on amazon. I remember watching this video by an American volunteer in the Ukrainian International Legion who talk about a company in the Czech Republic that sold suppressors for the Bren 2 that cost $125 so clearly it doesn't cost that much to make them yet I'm having a hard time finding anyone selling even shitty .22lr whip suppressors for under $500. Certainly with the NFA tax going away you'd think there'd be a market for cheap suppressors in the US right?
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>>64676719>Certainly with the NFA tax going away you'd think there'd be a market for cheap suppressors in the US right?This might happen, but obviously it hasn't yet. I do think there's a lot of hype surrounding suppressor design. There's a deliberate marketing mythology about high tech baffle designs and stuff. Sure, they're better, but not that much better.I'm going to Form 1 a .22 can out of pipe and washers. It'll be fine. Next I'll make a .30 can from a piece of heavy steel seamless pipe that rolled off a truck next to a McDonald's where I was eating lunch a couple years ago.
>>64676719I don't think people know what a lathe is anymore.
>>64676719>Certainly with the NFA tax going away you'd think there'd be a market for cheap suppressors in the US right?Yeah no shit. The tax hasn't gone away yet. Hence nobody is paying $200 to the government for a $100 can. This time next year, there will be solid options in all calibers for under $300, probably under $200. And hopefully soon after, grifters who sell $1000 cans with basic bitch internals will go out of business. There will of course still be a market for expensive cans. But they will only be those that have a truly market-leading quality in some regard (ie dead air's ultra quiet 3d printed baffles, surefire's reputation for durability, etc). No more $600 cans from random companies with nothing unique about them.
