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Nope, they’re an NFA item. Highly regulated, you can get men in suits at your door for the offense of buying several oil filters at once.
by mwint 4y ago
Nope, they’re an NFA item. Highly regulated, you can get men in suits at your door for the offense of buying several oil filters at once.
- egberts1 4y agoNot finding any regulation on the misuse of oil filters … yet.
- mwint 4y agoThey make pretty decent silencers when affixed to the muzzle of a gun, and suddenly become an NFA item. I know a guy with a diesel repair shop who bought a “suspicious” number of filters off Amazon at once. A couple suits showed up at his door asking about them. We totally live in a surveillance state, and Amazon feeds your purchase history into it.
- belter 4y ago41 months in prison for your oil filter... "Maryland Man Arrested for Fuel Filter Silencer" https://www.guntrustlawyer.com/maryland-man-arrested-fuel-filter-silencer/ https://www.guntrustlawyer.com/maryland-man-arrested-fuel-fi...
- alfon 4y agoSeems it wasn’t just “possession of an oil filter silencer”: > Candelario sold and manufactured AR-15 style assault rifles in Maryland without a license. The ATF caught Candelario by using an anonymous man to purchase the firearms in a gas station parking lot. This agent purchased six rifles, as well as two fuel filter silencers.
- captainredbeard 4y agoIt is issued in the form of enforcement action by the ATF. The recent SC ruling on regulatory agencies may change this some.
- collegeburner 4y agothe "fuel filter" thing with the right other stuff is constructive possession even if u dont build it.
- nibbleshifter 4y agoConstructive intent is what the ATF claims (and wins in court).
- sgjohnson 4y agoAccording the the NFA, anything you use as a suppressor, is a suppressor. Be it an empty bottle, an oil filter, or a potato (yes, really).
- egberts1 4y agoif even a pillow; asking for a friend.
- sgjohnson 4y agoYes, but there's nothing wrong with using an NFA item for reasonable self defense.
- mwint 4y agoHas this been tested with silencers specifically? Seems like it’s nasty both directions; if you usually run a silencer on your home defense gun, they’d get you for that. If you don’t, and you take the time to put one on, it undermines your self defense claim.