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This is a great example of what the selective laser sintering 3D printing process is capable of. Not only is it functional, it looks pretty bad ass too. I got $5 that says we see this in an upcoming CoD game. :cool:

A circumferentially welded titanium can will stand up to an insane level of stress before it finally bursts or wears out. But with a 3D printed suppressor I have no idea about how short the barrel can be on a rifle or how many rounds it can go before it starts to fail,” explained Leghorn in his review. “If this were to be commercially available, I’d want to see some serious testing before I bought one, and even then I might hold off for a couple years to see how things went.”
 
Silencers don't exist you may want to correct the title to say "Suppressor".

It's been added to the dictionary, as such, it's been accepted as something that makes a firearm quieter (not entirely silent).

Like it or not, it's become common enough that even some manufacturers use it.
 
Silencers don't exist you may want to correct the title to say "Suppressor".

Ever shoot one of these ?


RUGER - MARK 3 INTEGRALLY SUPPRESSED 22 LR EOTECH MRDS PACKAGE PLUS AMMO (TUNGSTEN CERAKOTE)

If not, you might change your mind after you have. I did and the only sound I heard was the sound of the brass hitting the ejector, tink . tink . tink.....


Truthfully I can't say it was exactly one of these, but it was about 18 years ago that an SRT Hostage Rescue Team Officer in Tucson pulled out some of his special toys and the owner of a paintball field and myself had an interesting end of day experience on that field.

The Suppressed .45 Ingram was fun and a surprise, I can't even say I remember what it sounded like, I was too busy just trying to hang onto the damned thing. But that .22 was unreal.
 
ATF link worked fine for me
The term “Firearm Silencer” or “Firearm Muffler” means any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm, including any combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for the use in assembling or fabricating a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, any part intended only for use in such assembly or fabrication.​
 
Well, if Hiram Maxim wants to call it a silencer, then who am I to argue? I agree that it really only suppresses the sound of the weapon, but it was originally called a silencer.

Still, my 300BLK subsonic is pretty quiet running through a SilencerCo Specwar :D
 
Any good local machinist worth his salt will make you a good suppressor, i think it's something they do for fun. Just sayin support your local machinist.
 
Any good local machinist worth his salt will make you a good suppressor, i think it's something they do for fun. Just sayin support your local machinist.
He better have a license, or your local machinist will wind up in the pokey under Federal Firearm charges.
 
To manufacture one requires a special license, which is relatively easy and affordable for someone who will actually be in the business to do so. You do have to demonstrate you are in the business of making these; you can't just get a license to make two or three for your buddies. Then to legally own one, it needs to be legal in your state (legal in most, but not all), and apply for a tax stamp which costs $200.

With the current laws, acquiring a silencer any other way can give you 10 years in Club Fed.

Laws aside, if it becomes something anyone with a computer can make, maybe it will cause a review of the laws surrounding silencer. In some countries, they are not regulated at all, and in some cases, even required when target shooting.
 
It's been added to the dictionary, as such, it's been accepted as something that makes a firearm quieter (not entirely silent).

Like it or not, it's become common enough that even some manufacturers use it.

"SilencerCo" has it in its name. I don't like the term either as it's inaccurate. Unfortunately, like the term modem, (today's "modems" do not modulate, and demodulate.) its inaccurate but used by many.
 
To manufacture one requires a special license, which is relatively easy and affordable for someone who will actually be in the business to do so. You do have to demonstrate you are in the business of making these; you can't just get a license to make two or three for your buddies. Then to legally own one, it needs to be legal in your state (legal in most, but not all), and apply for a tax stamp which costs $200.

With the current laws, acquiring a silencer any other way can give you 10 years in Club Fed.

Laws aside, if it becomes something anyone with a computer can make, maybe it will cause a review of the laws surrounding silencer. In some countries, they are not regulated at all, and in some cases, even required when target shooting.

The loops are a pain, unnecessarily so but after going through them, I have my ar and 22 bolt action suppressed. I would say it is more fun with a 22 because you really do only hear the action cycling and the bullet hitting an object.
 
"SilencerCo" has it in its name. I don't like the term either as it's inaccurate. Unfortunately, like the term modem, (today's "modems" do not modulate, and demodulate.) its inaccurate but used by many.

Celibacy and Chastity became completely confused, y'all isn't anything close to a word, and literally doesn't mean literally any longer. Language is fluid, it's just not a big deal.

If someone tells me they put a silencer on a .22 pistol I know exactly what they mean.
 
It's been added to the dictionary, as such, it's been accepted as something that makes a firearm quieter (not entirely silent).

Like it or not, it's become common enough that even some manufacturers use it.

Just because people call a magazine a clip, doesn't make it right. If someone called your rig a mac, and said "eh, computers are computers", we both would cringe. The only thing that really can be "silenced" is a 22lr.

On an unrelated note, I can't wait for all the libtards to freak out about this even though people have been making suppressors in their garage for decades.
 
"SilencerCo" has it in its name. I don't like the term either as it's inaccurate. Unfortunately, like the term modem, (today's "modems" do not modulate, and demodulate.) its inaccurate but used by many.


To me, since for many decades Silencer was the only term for them, there is nothing innacurate about it. It's a word for an object, a noun. That silencers don't always mean silent is immaterial to me. One of the ones I used was more than silent enough to deserve the descriptor. But that's just how I see it from my experiences.
 
Who does?


If someone thinks silencers don't exist, then they are just too young to remember when they did :cool:
 
... if there's anything worse than grammar police....

<stirs up a hornet's nest>
I'm glad my state doesn't allow clips larger than 10 rounds!!!!!
 
Also while we are manufacturing, where that article where it said you could file down the firing pin on an AR15 to make it full auto...
 
Also while we are manufacturing, where that article where it said you could file down the firing pin on an AR15 to make it full auto...

Oh now I do need to read it.


You just made that up didn't you? :p
 
Oh now I do need to read it.


You just made that up didn't you? :p

I meant to say "where is that article?" As I remember it going around and being talked about some years back. IIRC from a newscaster statement.

I ended up google searching and found terrifying conversations from people who should never own a firearm haha
 
I meant to say "where is that article?" As I remember it going around and being talked about some years back. IIRC from a newscaster statement.

I ended up google searching and found terrifying conversations from people who should never own a firearm haha

I'm sure you did. I honestly can't imagine how anyone could think that would work, not if they have ever pulled apart the bolt and bolt carrier group on an AR-15.

I mean, if you fill off the pointy end then the pin is too short to impact the primer and ignite the charge. If you fill down the back end then I suppose the hammer doesn't strike the pin properly, or at all. And neither is going to prevent the sear mechanism from re-engaging the bolt carrier.

Now I owned a Tec-9 9mm back in the early 80's and it was fun to shoot, couldn't hit a damn thing with it cause it fired from an open bolt. Mine went full-auto on me all on it's own and that sorta scared me so I took it back to the gun store and traded it in on a Mini-14 Ranch Rifle and that was that.
 
I'm sure you did. I honestly can't imagine how anyone could think that would work, not if they have ever pulled apart the bolt and bolt carrier group on an AR-15.

I mean, if you fill off the pointy end then the pin is too short to impact the primer and ignite the charge. If you fill down the back end then I suppose the hammer doesn't strike the pin properly, or at all. And neither is going to prevent the sear mechanism from re-engaging the bolt carrier.

Now I owned a Tec-9 9mm back in the early 80's and it was fun to shoot, couldn't hit a damn thing with it cause it fired from an open bolt. Mine went full-auto on me all on it's own and that sorta scared me so I took it back to the gun store and traded it in on a Mini-14 Ranch Rifle and that was that.

Nice! I myself have only been shooting for a few years now. Late bloomer I know. Guns were scary evil things lol
 
I love to be a nitpicky gun term jerk as much as the next guy (clips and magazines are different things), but silence isn't just a noun. To silence something is to make it quieter. That's what a silencer does, and that's what Hiram Maxim called it when he invented it.

I was on the wrong side of this debate for a while, but after reading the patents and all it's kind of hard to stay militantly wrong about it.

It's a silencer. Should also not need all the BS paperwork and red tape, and $200 tax stamp.

Here's something to keep in mind about that $200 tax stamp though - it wasn't ever indexed to inflation, and it came about as a part of the 1934 National Firearms Act. The tax stamp was $200 in 1934, which if it was adjusted for inflation would be $3,571.43. The purpose of the tax was to prevent people from owning them at all.

Like the man said, the power to tax is the power to destroy.
 
To manufacture one requires a special license, which is relatively easy and affordable for someone who will actually be in the business to do so. You do have to demonstrate you are in the business of making these; you can't just get a license to make two or three for your buddies. Then to legally own one, it needs to be legal in your state (legal in most, but not all), and apply for a tax stamp which costs $200.

With the current laws, acquiring a silencer any other way can give you 10 years in Club Fed.

Laws aside, if it becomes something anyone with a computer can make, maybe it will cause a review of the laws surrounding silencer. In some countries, they are not regulated at all, and in some cases, even required when target shooting.

You can form 1 a silencer and make one yourself. You do not need a type 7 ffl to make silencers unless you are in the business of selling them.
 
What's really impressive to me here is that SLS technology is at a point where it can withstand the forces involved from a firearm discharge. At the rate we're going, it won't be long before additive, instead of subtractive, machining becomes the norm.
 
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Nice! I myself have only been shooting for a few years now. Late bloomer I know. Guns were scary evil things lol

I grew up a country kid in Texas. I used to get off the school bus, walk down the road to our house, grab either the .22 Lever Action Marlin or the 20GA. Remington Pump, sling it on my back, jump on my dirt bike and go hunting. No one ever called the Sheriff on me cause I never shot anything that wasn't acceptable to shoot. No farmer ever cried about one less Jack Rabbit or Sparrow. The Sparrows fed my Boa Constrictor and the Jack Rabbits were just neighborly favors, the rabbits get into the cotton and the cotton is the farmers life. Back then people didn't call the cops because someone "might" do something wrong, only if you did do something wrong. Sadly, a different time.
 
I grew up a country kid in Texas. I used to get off the school bus, walk down the road to our house, grab either the .22 Lever Action Marlin or the 20GA. Remington Pump, sling it on my back, jump on my dirt bike and go hunting. No one ever called the Sheriff on me cause I never shot anything that wasn't acceptable to shoot. No farmer ever cried about one less Jack Rabbit or Sparrow. The Sparrows fed my Boa Constrictor and the Jack Rabbits were just neighborly favors, the rabbits get into the cotton and the cotton is the farmers life. Back then people didn't call the cops because someone "might" do something wrong, only if you did do something wrong. Sadly, a different time.

I grew up in a 98% white suburb with parents that didn't even like camping. Wow was the real world a whole different place when I discovered it. Now I live out in the country where you hear shooting and everyone starts trying to guess what gun it is. Much better place, filled with people all willing to help eachother.

We get a lot of muskrats in the back, I swear they watch me. Any time I am out with my 22 they never show themselves. Soon as I just go for a walk unarmed they are bounding through the grass like they are off to see the wizard.
 
What's really impressive to me here is that SLS technology is at a point where it can withstand the forces involved from a firearm discharge. At the rate we're going, it won't be long before additive, instead of subtractive, machining becomes the norm.

I agree about the progress part. But keep something in mind when it comes to suppressors. The larger the can, the less pressure it has to withstand cause it has more internal volume capacity in which to absorb the pressure. But, there is that trade off, the larger the can the heavier and more unwieldy it becomes. So then the engineer starts looking at requirements. We have seen a few people claim that .22 can be pretty much silenced as far as the sound of firing is concerned, the mechanical function sounds and bullets breaking the sound barrier are a different part of the equation. But if a manufacturers primary goal is to reduce the noise of firing to safe levels then he has more wiggle room and by using good materials and construction techniques he can reduce the size, weight, and still reduce the noise enough to eliminate the need for hearing protection. If a .22 can be "silenced" so can a .45 and anyone should be able to see the simple logic in this. But the can starts to become pretty big and that limits the practicality of the device. Who wants to run around with a paint can on the front of your pistol so big around you can't see your sights?

Look at some old pictures of Uzis and MAC-10 silencers, then look at what is offered for modern day handgun calibers, look at the difference in size? The effectiveness of the noise suppression is being traded for weight and compactness which improves the handling characteristics.

Just thought I would point this out.
 
I grew up in a 98% white suburb with parents that didn't even like camping. Wow was the real world a whole different place when I discovered it. Now I live out in the country where you hear shooting and everyone starts trying to guess what gun it is. Much better place, filled with people all willing to help eachother.

We get a lot of muskrats in the back, I swear they watch me. Any time I am out with my 22 they never show themselves. Soon as I just go for a walk unarmed they are bounding through the grass like they are off to see the wizard.


It's part of why I think we get so many country boys and girls in the military, the idea of camping out isn't so foreign. Guns, choirs, etc, they've already experienced these things and accepted them as part of life. Not that city kids don't get taught some of the same life's lessons, but the venue is different, less foreign I suppose.
 
It's part of why I think we get so many country boys and girls in the military, the idea of camping out isn't so foreign. Guns, choirs, etc, they've already experienced these things and accepted them as part of life. Not that city kids don't get taught some of the same life's lessons, but the venue is different, less foreign I suppose.

I was too much of a pansy haha. My sister went navy and she was a camper. When I have kids they are for sure being raise to play in the dirt as best as I can lol.
 
You can form 1 a silencer and make one yourself. You do not need a type 7 ffl to make silencers unless you are in the business of selling them.
I don't think the current, or near future cost of a laser 3D metal printer could be justified unless I was going to be in the business of selling them! But the manufacturing license is cheaper and easier to get than the dealer's license.
 
I don't think the current, or near future cost of a laser 3D metal printer could be justified unless I was going to be in the business of selling them! But the manufacturing license is cheaper and easier to get than the dealer's license.

Type 7 ffl is the manufacturing license. Type 3 ffl is the selling of nfa items license.

Oops, I made a mistake you need a Type 1 FFL with a Class 3 SOT(Special Occupational Tax) for selling and transferring nfa weapons. You need a Type 7 FFL with a Class 2 SOT to manufacturer, sell and transfer ffl weapons. A Type 3 FFL is actually a Curios and Relics FFL. I have one it costs $30 for 3 years and some places like Brownell's give you a discount for having the C&R. I made back the $30 in the first day I got it.

Listing of Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) - 2016 | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

FFL, SOT, Class 3, Form 3, etc... - What are they?
 
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I think they should be called Deadeners. Works on several levels.

Pat. Pending, TM, etc.
 
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