Suppressor Demo Day shares information about firearm silencers
Today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cache Valley Shooting Range, Al’s Sporting Goods and Alder Law Group held a Suppressor Demo Day marketing event in order to clarify what organizers said were misconceptions about firearm suppressors.
Representatives from Dead Air Armament, Liberty Firearms, Advance Manufacturing Tactical, Desert Tech, and Al’s Sporting Goods were available throughout the event to showcase and answer questions about their products. Those who attended also had the opportunity to test out the different guns, suppressors and ammunition from the represented companies.
“The main reason we decided to host this event is to help clear up a lot of misinformation about suppressors,” said Nate Osborne, a representative of Al’s Sporting Goods. “Like that it’s an assassin’s tool or it completely silences your weapon. Really, it’s more like a muffler for a car.”
Osborne said most people who go into Al's say they didn't know suppressors are legal or that they can be owned by civilians. He said he hopes the demo day will help clarify that they are legal.
“I wanted to introduce Cache Valley-ites to the fact that suppressors are perfectly legal,” said Jim Alder, owner of the Alder Law Group, about the event. “There are a few additional hoops you have to jump through to own them, but they can be owned.”
If civilians want to purchase a suppressor, they can do so through a National Firearm Act gun trust offered by Alder Law Firm. This requires them to fill out a form for the NFA that includes a $200 transfer tax, followed by an extensive background check by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Alder said that Al’s Sporting Goods has always been his hometown sporting goods store, and that partnering up with it is “really cool and exciting.”
Osborne said this is the first time multiple companies have come to an outside range to have their products tested. Firearms that were available for test firing included the .22LR, 5.56, .308, 9mm, 300 WM, .30/30 caliber types as well as automatic weapons. Entry to the event was free and the companies provided the guns and suppressors that could be tested, but ammo to shoot them with had to be purchased at the range.
Representatives from Dead Air Armament, Liberty Firearms, Advance Manufacturing Tactical, Desert Tech, and Al’s Sporting Goods were available throughout the event to showcase and answer questions about their products. Those who attended also had the opportunity to test out the different guns, suppressors and ammunition from the represented companies.
“The main reason we decided to host this event is to help clear up a lot of misinformation about suppressors,” said Nate Osborne, a representative of Al’s Sporting Goods. “Like that it’s an assassin’s tool or it completely silences your weapon. Really, it’s more like a muffler for a car.”
Osborne said most people who go into Al's say they didn't know suppressors are legal or that they can be owned by civilians. He said he hopes the demo day will help clarify that they are legal.
“I wanted to introduce Cache Valley-ites to the fact that suppressors are perfectly legal,” said Jim Alder, owner of the Alder Law Group, about the event. “There are a few additional hoops you have to jump through to own them, but they can be owned.”
If civilians want to purchase a suppressor, they can do so through a National Firearm Act gun trust offered by Alder Law Firm. This requires them to fill out a form for the NFA that includes a $200 transfer tax, followed by an extensive background check by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Alder said that Al’s Sporting Goods has always been his hometown sporting goods store, and that partnering up with it is “really cool and exciting.”
Osborne said this is the first time multiple companies have come to an outside range to have their products tested. Firearms that were available for test firing included the .22LR, 5.56, .308, 9mm, 300 WM, .30/30 caliber types as well as automatic weapons. Entry to the event was free and the companies provided the guns and suppressors that could be tested, but ammo to shoot them with had to be purchased at the range.