You Can Walk Out With the Can. SilencerCo Says Don’t Cross the State Line.

SilencerCo, West Valley City, Utah, dated its customer guidance August 31, 2026, after the injunction in Silencer Shop Foundation v. ATF took effect at midnight August 13. For a qualifying purchase in 27 named states, the company says a buyer can complete ATF Form 4473, run NICS, and take a new SilencerCo suppressor when the dealer is told to proceed. No Form 4. No fingerprints. No passport photo. No CLEO letter. A NICS delay still means you come back later, the same as any firearm. The states on SilencerCo’s list: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

State law still applies. Dealers are not required to participate. SilencerCo says some retailers are waiting, and that is their right. The company is explicit that the injunction is not universal and did not abolish the NFA. Qualifying 4473 transfers, in SilencerCo’s words, “are still NFA-regulated items.” The live trap is 26 U.S.C. § 5861(j), which prohibits interstate transport, delivery, or receipt of a firearm “which has not been registered as required.” SilencerCo: “We do not yet know whether or how this applies to suppressors purchased using a Form 4473.” Its instruction: “we strongly encourage customers who use the Form 4473 purchase process to keep their suppressors in the state of purchase.” Warranty service still exists; the shipping path may look different.

Form 4 remains open, now at a $0 tax. SilencerCo tells hunters, competitors, and anyone who travels out of state to consider it while interstate questions sit unanswered. This is not a rewrite of Wednesday’s story that ATF still has not posted Bureau-wide rules. This is manufacturer paper: what the counter will do in 27 states, and what 5861(j) still might do at a state line. The company’s last line is the policy ask, not the legal holding: “Ultimately, we want to see the NFA taken out behind the barn.”