Republican Attorney General Marty Jackley supports the legislation. Listing a silencer as a controlled weapon, he said, ...
States like South Dakota are working to deregulate suppressors in case the NFA tax stamp requirement is ever eliminated.
In 2019, a gunman shot and killed 12 people in a Virginia Beach municipal building. His semiautomatic weapon was fitted with a silencer, making the gunshots sound, to one survivor, “like a nail gun.” ...
Police said they recovered two 3D-printed silencers and 11 3D-printed lower receivers from the man's home.