The basic rules for suppressors are that you must be 21, you must get a $200 tax stamp for each one, and I believe they must be registered, though I am not sure of that.

I’ll just let the BATFE* speak for themselves:
“As you are aware, the terms “firearm silencer” and “firearm
muffler” mean any device for silencing, muffling,
or diminishing the report of a portable firearm, including any combination
of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for use in assembling
or fabricating a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, and any part intended
only for use in such assembly or fabrication. Thus, certain internal
components, intended only for use in a silencer, are silencers as defined.

If an individual made one of these parts, even for use as a
replacement part, the individual would be making a silencer. Under
the provisions of the National Firearms Act, any person must apply
for and receive permission to make a silencer and pay the making
tax for each silencer made. This would require the individual
owner to file an ATF Form 1 application for each silencer part to
be made with the payment of $200.00 for each application prior to
making any replacement part.”

Yes, theoretically, this could mean you need to register your finger, since it aided you in making the silencer. This is the same agency that declared once that shoestrings were machine gun components and thus needed to be registered.

Why a noise control device is so heavily regulated on firearms, but mandated on automobiles, I will never figure out.

The laws on short barreled weapons are so baffling that even I don’t fully understand them. Basically, a weapon with a stock and barrel under the limit for its respective type (rifle or shotgun) is a Short Barreled Rifle (or Shotgun), and needs the same tax stamp and everything that a suppressor does, since they are covered under the same law. Pistols are free to have barrels as long as you want them to, but as soon as you attach a stock or vertical foregrip, you have a rifle, and if the barrel on that pistol is less than 16″, you must undergo the process of SBRing it. Interestingly, shotguns with barrels less than 18″ that have never had a stock on them are classified as “Any Other Weapons” and are subject to only a $5 tax.

*Our government firearms regulatory agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

My wife was pretty pissed but then you’ll have that from time to time.

Recently a guy who was videoing himself driving at 120+ MPH speeds on public streets…and….selling the videos online was arrested… and…the video was used as evidence against him. Shocking!

I can’t tell if he’s licensed for restricted firearms (likely he is) or prohibited firearms (likely he is not), but as the MAC-10 has never been legal to own here, it obviously is unregistered and therefore being in possession of it is illegal.

Also, it is firearm handlers that are licensed, not the firearms themselves. Firearms are registered.

The Times Colonist seems to have grossly misreported the charges. I’ll see if I can dig up the actual charges.

If you mean he went and dug his own grave by posting the video online, you’re right. He’s an idiot.

If you mean he went and broke a terrible, life-wrecking law, then no, he’s not an idiot, he’s a better man than most.