“For the first time since the National Firearms Act (NFA) was created in 1934, civilians across the country can enjoy suppressed shooting with SilencerCo’s latest innovation: the integrally suppressed Maxim 50 muzzleloader,” the company’s website proclaimed. “In addition, this product can be purchased right now on the web with no regulation (no 4473, no $200 tax stamp, no photographs, and no fingerprints) and be shipped immediately to the customer with few exceptions.” Yeah, no . . .
SilencerCo’s Facebook page posted this announcement yesterday:
Upon launching the Maxim 50, SilencerCo received several immediate legal challenges from authorities and lawyers in the states of New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California. Since we have no desire to place any consumer in a situation where they may get arrested and charged with a felony because their state defines a firearm differently than the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), we have placed orders from those states on hold and are refunding customers pending legal confirmation. We will update our customers as soon as we have multiple source verification.
Who could’ve seen that one coming?
You’d think The Golden State would have better things to do, what with a foxnews.com article revealing that the high-tax, high regulation state has a poverty rate of 20.4 percent vs. Texas’ 14.7 percent. if so, you’d be wrong.
Anyway, I can’t help but wonder if the Axis of Tyranny ranged against the $1k SilencerCo Maxim 50 will help sales in other states. And if this helps or hurts the anti-silencer campaign waging war on the biill deregulating silencers. Watch this space.
I don’t think I’ll be able to do it myself, so I’m putting this out there for the world to make of it what they will…
The world needs a set-up in this style, but with SAIGA-12s, and oriented upside down. Basically a 12-gauge portable AA gun. An ultimate snow-goose eliminator. The skies would never be the same.
Bonus points for doing it with original A5 shotguns (converted to feed from box magazines, of course) so the recoiling-barrel-action is present.
I’m waiting…
WOW! I can’t believed I guessed the right states! (Sarc)Apparently, these states REALLY ARE against guns in general, as…..I don’t think anyone’s grandfather can remember the last time a school was shot up with a muzzle-loader.
Huh. I guessed New York instead of Massachusetts.
Won’t be long though.
They should start calling it the Maxim Descending Number.
Waiting for Hollywood to release that new action thriller with the suspenseful scene of a ruthless assassin takes out the politicians niece with a Maxim 50 muzzle loader. All nice and quiet-like…
So, no supressor tax stamp required for that?
You can’t teach an alter Hund neue tricks….
Too expensive. Too complicated and slow to get into action. Looks delicate.Did you see how gingerly the demonstrator handled it? One shot? What, no black powder muzzleloader version?
Better for less money: Beretta 21A, NAA mini Revolvers, ANY Micro .380, ANY ,25 auto.
What is is for? “Onion Field” last ditch gun? Laughs? People with more money than brains?
I meet all kinds of people at the range. Keeps it interesting.
meh. Galil, Tavor, and Jericho >> HK anything anyway. I do not fear for the security of Israel. I do fear for the security of Germans, given their current desire to import war and terrorists.
Pretty soon, Germany and Europe will be a war zone off limits to HK sales too. Maybe then Germans will defend themselves with Galils and Tavors.
HK seems to be going down the tubes.
I generally don’t go to a range but rather go shoot out in nature.
When I hear people say thing like (And I heard this recently) “Well it’s got a 150 yard zero on it so to be centered on that 4″ circle at 100 it’s like…. -0.1 mils” when they’re missing the target completely by about 3″ high… I just wonder how this species got to where it is.
We’re these dudes wearing full camo covered in patches? Ya betcha.
Fortunately for this asshat and his smug readers, unlike ObamaCare, the government isn’t forcing them to buy a gun.
I sort of worked for Jane Kramer the New Yorker European correspondent in Paris very briefly in the mid ’90s. She was such an a$$whole that even the other New Yorker writers all hated her as far as I could tell. I was like the kid in Swimming with Sharks and she of course was the Kevin Spacey character. I didn’t last long enough to get to the part where I captured and tortured her, I kinda wish I had. That would be a treasured memory.
At least they don’t say “ain’t nevah been done befoah”
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/05/chris-dumm/gun-review-cabelas-dual-10-22-gatling-gun/
A lot of us have the problem best stated as, “If I buy another gun, my wife will kill me with it.” Wouldn’t it be simply grand if the ObamaCare paradigm was applied to firearms? If you DIDN’T buy a new gun every year, you’d be fined a substantial amount for your failure to obtain at least one serviceable firearm, either rifle, shotgun, or handgun – your choice. Then all you’d have to worry about is the arguments over who got to choose which gun that year.
This is a sad situation all around. I’m all in favor of police being able to do their jobs and go home safe at the end of the day, but there has to be a better way to handle this kind of situation. Rubber bullets, bean bag rounds, bear spray, whatever… we should be developing more and better less-than-lethal options and training police to use them, even if they’re far from perfect. The kid was clearly messed up but there’s always hope that he could turn his life around. The police could have kept retreating and kept others away until he (yes, HE) came to his senses. It might have inconvenienced some people but a human life is worth it.
There’s a lot of PC taboos around this incident, but one thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the fact that the officer who shot the kid sounds like a woman. Is this true? It’s my understanding that female police officers are actually more likely to shoot people than males. I can imagine a bunch of reasons why that might be the case.
Calling health insurance health care is like calling car insurance a car.
My fiancée ended up working at a local hardware store when she moved in with me. Thanks to Obamacare, she was working six days a week, earning $8.50/hr and getting fewer than 30 hours a week in pay.
She never got overtime, and never got more than 29.5 hours of work. She couldn’t afford to register the car that I GAVE her on these slave wages, and had to walk home in the pouring rain and at night by herself on the nights I was working.
She was never anti-gun, but she wanted to get a CCW permit before a driver’s license, because “I need a gun more than I need to stay dry; it’s only two miles anyway.” You know what she didn’t have? Health insurance.
How does this snooty, ignorant journo propose she get an abortion if she gets raped walking home from her menial job? I’m sure that’s his answer to the vulnerable position the Left has placed her in; but she can’t get insurance if she can’t afford groceries, meaning that she’s worse off than anyone ever was before.
If Obamacare makes someone homeless because they can’t survive within its rules, they’re going to need a gun to guarentee health and safety a damn sight more than they’re going to need access to 4th tier medical insurance.
Well I guess that made my decision of wether to buy the pps over the vp9, as a southern Baptist in the south we as a majority want the Jews to thrive and Respect them very much , it might be the gentiles time but soon it will be there’s. And we hate Muslims btw…..just saying
Why buy a 9 mm with 8 round mag capacity that weighs 29 oz. when you can get a .45 which weighs the same and has the same capacity?
Cheaper ammo?
Faster shot recovery?
You already have a nine and don’t want more than one flavor of ammo to need your attention?
Because you damn well feel like it?
Who knows?
– that said: frankly I feel that any 1911 that isn’t a .45 or 10mm is blasphemous.
Apparently it’s tough for this dude to wrap his head around the fact that some people have principles. Some people actually believe that government has neither right to take away their guns, nor the money they’ve earned, only to hand it over to some slouch who made shitty life decisions and likely ate his way into the hospital.
Your choice to:
1. Stuff your face at every meal
2. Not exercise
3. Drop out of college
4. Not budget
5. Be lazy
6. Text while driving
7. Drink yourself stupid
8. Feel sorry for yourself and blame everyone else for your problems
9. [insert lame excuses, ad nauseum]
…does not entitle you to any portion of my paycheck.
Some people don’t want gun control OR Obamacare, because both are patently wrong. See how easy that was?
Crank operated kits are old school. I remember seeing a dual ak47 kit at a local gunshow. Tripod and big handcrank wheel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQFn-VSj1w
Um, no.
For anyone thinking the government should be dealing in healthcare I ask you to just look at the VA. Seriously take a really good look, yes it’s awesome in certain areas or if you manage to get a decent doc but by and large it Fing blows!! Long waits, travelling a good way (3 hrs for me. Travel pay? Yeah lololololol barely covers a happy meal and you get it 2 months later) for simple things like x rays, radiologists that miss 8cm tumors in your pelvis because they wants that productivity bonus (lookin at you Marion, Illinois VA Hospital), and rather than look for alternative treatments for minor issues they’ll fling pills.
So yeah this is just barely scratching the surface. Can anyone honestly say the government should run healthcare with the VA and the military’s post hospitals shining as beacons of governmental incompetence in the arena of healthcare?
Sure looks like a sweet gun. Would have been a little nicer looking IMO if it had real rosewood thin grips.