Re: Making your own suppressor.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Griffin Armament</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think the specs and materials are limited to your imagination and compliance to the specs you give the ATF on the form 1 which they will approve prior to your build.
I've never done that, but that's what I've gathered from past posts of other people who have.
Not to discourage building your own, but it is pretty rare that anyone designs a product that's impressive compared to marketed products. The price of a marketed product looks high because you never get to see all the invested dollars that go no-where as the various players develop products to the point of having a saleable item.
A great example is a baffle that costs $12,000 in tooling to make the first part, or a recoil booster that might have cost $15,000 to develop.
When you buy a ~$700-900 item, that item represents all of those hidden costs amortized over hundreds or thousands of units and in the end, your $700 item might be the result of lessons learned from $90,000 worth of R&D, tooling, or design hours.
In other words making your own could be a great deal, or a terrible waste of money and time. Just something to consider before you get started.
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Hm very interesting points. I think I could do it. I can be pretty creative. So if I get all the legal work taken care of and I finish building it. I'll post a video of it. That is if it's any good lol. Thanks for your assistance. That was very helpful.