"There have been a thousand different takes on the Big Beautiful Bill, so I will be brief with mine. Anything short of the removal of suppressors from the NFA is no victory. This does, however, represent a small window of opportunity.

I’ll say the quiet part out loud. The goal of the FTN projects has always been to make suppressors “common use”.

I consider it our civic duty to produce as many suppressors as possible.

Many people did not print suppressors due to fear of legal consequences, which is understandable. Now with $0 stamps, there is no excuse. We have been granted a rare opportunity to legally manufacture a large quantity of suppressors for low cost and no legal risk.
The flip side of the coin is that the cost of stamps is no longer considered immutable. It is only a matter of time before the balance of power changes and gun-grabbers push to raise the cost of stamps to $4000. I expect zero dollar stamps to be a temporary thing.

In light of all of these changes I have decided to release a few files I have been holding on to:

-Maelstrom Series: flow-through suppressor pack with no external shell
-FTNSD: for use with SD style barrels, developed with SuS
-FTN.4 Carbon Fiber remix: I meant to release this back a year ago, and never got to it
-FTN Shotgun: these are unfinished files, provided for other devs to build on
-FTN.5 Pack which includes the quietest 22 I have ever made, flow-through rifle rated suppressors that are just as quiet as baffled cans, a new tesla valve 22, a novel pistol suppressor that uses an inside-out Nielsen

Unfortunately because I stepped away, these have not completed a formal beta with high volume of testing. The value in a properly developed release is in the testing itself. It is relatively easy to CAD a model, especially suppressors. Rigorous testing and beta member feedback is what identifies and fixes problems. I did continue to receive feedback from a few beta testers, which is what led to these final models. Two in particular I want to highlight: Coprolite and GarageGunshop24. Both of these kept the spirit of the FTN Beta group alive by tirelessly testing all year round. It is due to these two individuals that these files came to be.

These models do have what I consider to be very interesting and new geometry that has not been explored previously in FDM suppressors, so I wanted to get the concepts out there. Open invitation for devs to take any of these files/concepts and improve them and release them as their own. I hope these files and the change in the legal requirement starts a whole new wave of DIY suppressor development.

If you haven't already, make sure you are following the HubTN series by trem mango, and the OP9 series by openpew.

It doesn’t matter if you print my files or someone else’s, but I urge everyone to take advantage of this (probably narrow) window and manufacture as many suppressors as possible.

Together we can FTN.

-pla.boi"

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LBRY Tags: suppresor; nfa; 9mm; ftn; archive