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by SauciestGNU 1988 days ago
I'm going to be pedantic, but in the US, those silencer kits can be legal. There are requirements for the provenance of the components used in them (can't be imported) but until you drill out the bore they're solvent traps or fuel filters. And if you pay for a tax stamp and file the correct paperwork with the ATF, it's completely legal to transform those items into a firearm suppressor.
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Good luck.

A lot of "if" statements in your comment.

The ones I saw were clearly not manufactured in the USA, and based on the comment sections were clearly understood to be suppressor components.

Lots of YouTube/internet "I'm not a lawyer, but..." comments floating out there.

Even if we were being extraordinary charitable, all plausible deniability goes out the window with even a cursory reading of the the description and the comments for these items.