What is a good, general purpose silencer for 556
Check PewScience (while not ironclad, things that he gives good reviews are usually pretty decent at least), Juicey media and Silencer Analytics (and his old channel, Silencer Syndicate). Wait until after SHOT to make a purchase.
Avoid Keymo, yes the lockup issues that people have with it are probably mostly self inflicted but it's a decade old design that is heavier and adds more length than many other QD systems (also this might just be me but the muzzle devices are really ugly). Plus the HUB adapters are like $250 a piece and the only ones that come with them permanently affixed are Pre X Model Sandman's and those are practically obsolete.
If you decide to go with Surefire wait until the reviews come out for the RC-4 that they'll probably be releasing soon.
Avoid the Sierra-5 from Dead Air, the stellite casting problems they had with them have been long resolved but still
CAT's are pretty much universally praised except for their lack of availability, stupid cartoons, new releases being continually delayed and price.
Avoid Q, they sell what is basically a YHM Turbo for $1200 and Kevin brittingham is a huge fag.
Avoid purchasing any KAC CRS's for the time being, not because they're awful but KAC has leapfrogged ahead two generations from the CRS-1 to the CRS-3 but didn't even offer up the CRS-2 for sale (it appeared in a catalog) before further refining it into the CRS-3.
If you buy surefire make sure you get a muzzle device with Labyrinth seals
Huxwrx might actually be releasing an an actually available Inconel model at SHOT so that their blast baffles stop getting shredded
Avoid anything from Sig Saar, some in the army have to weld the locking collar to the muzzle device to stop them from coming off
Otter Creek Labs is the darling of the silencer community, they're working on their first printed 5.56.
If you value your health and or shoot a lot/especially indoor get something low back pressure.
Use this website to for not only a relatively compete list of major manufacturers but to map out weight and length of various configurations
Ruger has a new very ugly and stupid variant of the LCP MAX that comes from the factory with a 15 MOA fiber optic red dot (it stops working when it's dark out). At least you still have a front sight
FMGC-01, a select fire FGC-9 variant seized in Haiti back in July. full auto FGC-9 derivatives are something I'm sorely lacking knowledge in. Notably it has a MK1 Style ejector because the design existed as far back as 2022 in one way or another.
Beretta 92's with factory buttstocks the LAPD ordered for the 1984 Summer Olympics.
This doesn't visually appear to be a Ciener Over/Under but it might be a very rough prototype
Finnish captured and shortened SVT-40
Gall and FAL with GP-25's
AEK-919, A-762 and A-545
VSS
Cut down RPD in Vietnam
PKT Conversions
New patent drawings for the Crye rifle caliber PDW
Mr. Crye has also applied for a patent for a pistol that also fires rifle cartridges
For those that don't understand how the magazine works
Don't expect to ever be able to buy this, Mr. Crye has a history of coming up with investing gun designs and abandoning them stretching back to the 2000's.
Blind squirrel industries clamp on AR-15 mag well adapters for 1911 mags (these seem a little retarded, why not make a insert retained by the magwell unless Stern Defense has a patent on it)
Issue #12 of the GunCAD Digest
I understand Franklin has to try and recoup some of the money they spent on the lawsuit but come on man
The lolbert who claims to have gotten /r/FOSSCAD nuked put out a new update regarding his rifle design
Tajik Terrorist in Syria with a Suppressed M&P57. He has 3 Beretta PMX's on the wall behind him
Bunch of Info from Second Amendment Foundation I can't be bothered to screenshot it all so look at it on nitter.
-Fiscal Year 2025 (Oct 24 to Sep 25) had 1.5M NFA applications
-Tax Revenue: $187M, expected to be slashed to $25-30M once $0 tax stamps go through
-Fiscal Year 2024 saw 834k Form 4's while FY25 saw 892k.
-FY24 saw 90k Form 1's while FY25 only saw 60k.
-At the end of FY23, 258,408 forms were left pending, The end of FY24, 71,644, End of FY25, 28,638. As of 10/29 there were 31,559 applications pending, of those 27,918 were tax paid transfers. The rest were tax exempt (SOT's)
-ATF might expand Eforms to allow person to person transfers, that is, you bought a suppressor, didn't like it, so you decide to sell it to another guy for 60% retail value.
