BATF on Silencers

I have done some research on "Silencers" for paintball markers/guns. Here is what I found on the BATF website specifically about "Silencers and paintball markers/guns"

http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/faq2.htm#a9

Very interesting and hopefully this will help everyone maybe understand what is legal and not, here in the US.

STANGER,

I know that YWSM had posted it before, but I didn't have the site address available. Thank you for posting it!

LMAO  Your so stupid!!  This says paintball silencers, being of their nature and cause.. have been called FIRE ARM silencers!!  DOESNT MEAN PAINTBALL GUN SILENCERS ARE ILLEGAL!  It means that some silencers that have been made can be used with a real firearm, therfor illegal!

It also says you need to pay 200 dollars in order to MANUFACTURE and REGISTER a silencer to make it legal.

A PAINTBALL GUN IS NOT A FIREARM!!

Why not you may ask? 
 Firearm - A weapon, especially a pistol or rifle, capable of firing a projectile and using an explosive charge as a propellant!

A paintball is projected by compressed air, not an explosion.  Therefor the BATF does not make the laws of paintball guns/Markers.

Any further questions, dont ask cause ur making urself look stupid by dragging this on further

lol, how are you going to fit the silencer onto the gun?  and no one considers a paintball gun a firearm except little kits on forums like these for one reason - its not one.

I dare you to find a real suppresser for a real gun, that will fit a paintball gun.  The same exact bore!  Visa versa.

I really enjoy the nitpicking that goes on when those have little knowledge and no experience try to bully everyone who disagrees with them. I'll try one more time.

It makes no difference whether a paintball marker is considered a gun, a firearm or a ping-pong paddle. BATF could not care less on to what you install the silencer.

The BATF regulates silencers. The law is clear and specific. Silencers designed to muffle a paintball marker will work quite well on a hand gun or rifle. As JediJak said, people are mistaken to think the James Bond type screw-it-into-the-barrel is the way they are all attached. In fact, few semi-auto handguns can function with a silencer attached directly to the barrel. Most are either a friction fit or use a series of clamps to hold them in place. Most handguns have to be heavily modified to accept a screw-on style of silencer.

A few years ago someone developed a fitting for the end of several rifles and pistols. This fitting was clamped on the end of the barrel and allowed one to screw a 2 liter plastic soda bottle over the end of the barrel...making an extremely effective silencer. The BATF ruled that possession of that fitting was the same as owning a illegal silencer.

One last time, the BATF regulates the devise designed to muffle a weapon. Since a silencer designed to muffle a paintball marker can be applied to a firearm, it is still a regulated devise.

And I just cannot let it pass, if your definition of a firearm is one that requires the ignition of a combustible product to propel the "bullet," Tippmann certainly has blurred the line with the C-3.

Fact is it requires little modification of a paintball marker to turn it into a lethal weapon. Heck, there have already been people killed with standard markers when hit in the eye.

Through the centuries there have been several examples of hunting weapons that used pressure chambers to store compressed air to fire a standard lead bullet. That is just a point of interest, since it has no impact on the regulation of silencers.

Silencers are regulated. Not silencers on firearms, not silencers on paintball markers, not silencers on BB guns or on Airsoft guns. Silencers are regulated.

Bruce A. Frank wrote: Heck, there have already been people killed with standard markers when hit in the eye.

Really?  I was aware of the tank deaths, but not this.  Do you have more information about this, or a link?

Bruce A. Frank wrote: And I just cannot let it pass, if your definition of a firearm is one that requires the ignition of a combustible product to propel the "bullet," Tippmann certainly has blurred the line with the C-3.

I was just about to bring up the C-3, but you beat me to it.