Silencer Saturday

Welcome back to another installment of Silencer Saturday. Last week we looked at some of the results from the 2024 Thunderbeast Arms Silencer Summit. This week we have a closer look at a very unique silencer that will probably never be tested at that kind of event.

Thunderbeast Arms recently hosted the  2024 Silencer Summit where suppressor manufacturers around the industry met to test their wares. The event gathered data from many of the silencers on the market at the same place and on the same equipment for apples-to-apples comparison. The full results of that test are now published, and they are pretty interesting.

Welcome back to another installment of Silencer Saturday. This week we are taking a trip down memory lane with the long-discontinued YHM Maxim Woodsman .22 LR suppressor. It’s an interesting design, albeit a little dated. Let’s look at this silencer and what it has to offer.

In my time working a gun counter, I have sold a lot of silencers. But I have also had the “what silencer should I buy?” conversation at least five times for every silencer sold. So what is the right first silencer to buy? I can’t answer that for you, but I can help you ask the right questions.

Welcome back to another installment of Silencer Saturday. This time we will look at some standard thread pitches and some less-standard ones. Why would any manufacturer use a non-standard thread pitch? Let’s find out.

There's another silencer deregulation bill making the rounds in Washington D.C. The Silencers Help Us Save Hearing Act (SHUSH Act) aims to take silencers out of regulation under the National Firearms Act (NFA), among other things. This is not the first time a SHUSH Act has been introduced, and this iteration has some interesting changes.

Welcome back to Silencer Saturday! This week’s installment looks at the rather uncommon SilencerCo A2 ASR muzzle device and a related successor. Silencer-compatible muzzle devices can really throw off the look of some guns, particularly older ones. The A2 ASR is an object of desire for the retro crowd, so let’s take a look at what it is, why it was discontinued, and what its spiritual successor is.