Suppressors are often pitched as an easy upgrade: less blast, less recoil, better shooting experience. For many hunters, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gun silencers are displayed at the Sig Sauer booth at the 2016 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. (John Locher ...

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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 ...

The federal government has strictly limited the sale of firearm silencers for as long as James Bond and big-screen gangsters have used them to discreetly shoot enemies between the eyes. Now the gun ...

Hunters across the country are adopting the use of silencers to both save on hearing loss and to avoid scaring wildlife. Even if the Russians aren’t coming, apparently Americans aren’t willing to take ...

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.

Republican Attorney General Marty Jackley supports the legislation. Listing a silencer as a controlled weapon, he said, ...