Remove firearm silencers (aka suppressors) from the purview of the National Firearms Act.
By reducing the substantial noise created when discharging a firearm, silencers can provide significant health benefits to those that use firearms, as well as those in the immediate vicinity of discharging firearms. Silencers can also increase the comfort of those residing near shooting ranges, potentially increasing property values, even.
Recent research into humans’ cognitive decline is showing a significant link between hearing loss, particularly tinnitus, and cognitive decline, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Using firearm silencers can significantly reduce the noise that users of firearms are exposed to.
By reducing a firearm’s sound signature via a silencer, the user’s hearing (and that of those in the immediate vicinity), is better protected than with hearing protective devices (i.e. earplugs and/or earmuffs), alone. This approach to protecting a person’s hearing (an “Engineering Control”) is completely inline with the Hierarchy of Controls, as endorsed by the CDC’s National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
The current regulation of silencers is burdensome, expensive, not based on any sort of public benefit, has no logical foundation when contrasted against the rationale of other NFA regulations, and certainly infringes upon a person’s ability to fully, and safely, exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Many countries outside of ours have a much more reasonable approach to how, when and by whom silencers can be purchased, even in countries with firearms laws that are much more restrictive than ours.