It has been a good couple of days for silencer advocates. Yesterday, an Iowa bill that would legalize silencers in the Hawkeye state moved out of committee. Today in Georgia, a bill to legalize hunting with silencers in that state has advanced out of the Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee.
SB 93 would remove the current prohibition on hunting with silencers and would allow silencers for any game that can otherwise lawfully be taken with a firearm. The bill also mandates a three year suspension of hunting privileges for anyone using a silencer while “hunting without landowner permission, hunting in an area that is closed for hunting, or by hunting big game out of season or at night with a firearm equipped with a suppressor.”
. In the tough ammo market following the Sandy Hook tragedy, shooting the cheaper rimfire through my AR seemed to make a lot of sense. I had read about how quickly rimfire can gunk up a can, so I decided that I wanted a user serviceable model. At the uber inexpensive end of the market, the 