Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?

• Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The only thing that’s changed is the $200 stamp tax was removed from the process. Everything else including registration and the background check remains the same. Wait times had only really come down from ~a year to a month or less for most cases because the ATF finally got their systems in a decent state for form 4 eFile.

  The last one I bought early last year took about a week for the form to be approved. The first one I ever bought a decade ago took nearly a year.

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  • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wanted to avoid overexplaining the joke, but it’s also worth pointing out that the slight shifts in federal law this year is only a part of a broader push around state laws and American gun culture more broadly (and I’d expect them to keep lobbying for more federal deregulation after this year too), to where it’s now more economically viable to manufacture, distribute, and sell suppressors. According to this source’s analysis of ATF stats, we went from less than a million lawfully registered suppressors in 2016 to 1.5 million in 2018 to 2.6 million on 2021 to 4.9 million in 2024.

    There’s a broader shift underway, and I was just making a joke about it.

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    • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Gotcha, yeah, I could see the change bringing forward more suppressors on the market that are built with cheaper materials and meant to be more like wear items than something meant to last for years as the market had been for the US because of the regulations.

      I’ve only heard from hunters/target sport shooters in other countries where suppressors are less regulated because gun ownership was more restrictive; that they have a lot more access to cheap suppressors then we do.

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