SilencerCo Muzzleloader Sparks Legal Challenge, Change In Company Plans

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Posted September 20, 2017 2:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

SilencerCo built a unique piece of equipment when it developed it’s suppressed muzzleloader, the Maxim 50. All over the country, gun enthusiasts were looking at their budgets and making plans for securing one of these guns.

Anti-gunners, however, had other plans. Bearing Arms received the following statement via email from SilencerCo:

Upon launching the Maxim 50, SilencerCo received several immediate legal challenges from authorities and lawyers in the states of New Jersey, California, and Massachusetts. Since we have no desire to place any consumer in a situation where they may get arrested and charged with a felony because their state defines a firearm differently than the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), we have placed orders from those states on hold and are refunding customers pending conversations amongst lawyers. These three states have rules that are not entirely clear with respect to firearms and silencers and antique firearms, and it is relevant to point out that no states contemplated a product of this sort in their laws.
SilencerCo asked for and received a determination from the BATFE on behalf of the federal government prior to launch but could not do so officially from each state government or risk specific state-level legislation …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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