VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — The shooter who killed 12 people in a government office building in Virginia Beach used a firearm equipped with a suppressor that muffles the sound of gunfire. It’s the ...

“Silence is golden” unless it’s the silence that lets tragedy creep in. That haunting twist of a common saying echoes chillingly in the heads of those who watched the 2019 Virginia Beach shooting ...

If you want a silencer for your hunting rifle, you should reserve it now before the federal tax is lifted. You read that right. Buy it now, but take possession of it only after Jan. 1, when the ...

For years, suppressors sat in a strange spot in the hunting world. Plenty of hunters liked the idea of... The post Faster Suppressor Approvals Are Changing How Hunters Set Up Their Rifles appeared ...

The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and if a Republican bill making it easier to buy silencers in the wake of America’s deadliest shooting passes, it will just get there faster. Suggested ...

If you legally can use a suppressor, is it becoming rude not to? A recent hunt in New Zealand, where suppressors are almost required equipment, got Brad Fenson thinking about the question. Follow ...

A bill to repeal the prohibition on gun silencers in Georgia law passed out of the state Senate on Crossover Day.  That’s after its counterpart narrowly failed to pass in […] ...

A Lincoln man was sentenced Monday to 57 months in prison after pleading guilty to building a homemade silencer. Douglas M. West, 50, pleaded guilty in May to unlawful possession of a silencer.