So I have a suppressor at a local gun shop waiting on approval. I stopped in the other week to pick up the muzzle device to install. So I call today about going in to have them check the bore alignment and fire a few rounds through it. I was told that they couldn’t do anything to it until I’m actually approved. Does that jive with your experience? Are they legally not allowed to put a guide rod into a suppressor until I’m approved and it’s mine?
Complete BS. A local shop here would take dudes into the desert to run their cans prior to the stamp coming in.
They’re fine with me coming in to shoot it. They just won’t put an alignment rod in it until it’s approved. They won’t even let me use their rod to check it.
IME, depends on the shop. I know many people who have gone in and been able to ‘test’ theirs.
That makes no sense. But for if it were me, I wouldn’t even care to mess with it as all til the stamp came in.
Sounds like they just don’t want to accept any liability if there’s an issue.
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That’s kind of how I took it. I’ve got to wonder what can go wrong with sliding a small metal rod into a hole? They would have to be some ham handed morons to damage anything. A called a buddy and he has a rod, so I’ll just go in and do it myself.
It’s not about them damaging anything. I believe they’re trying to avoid any liability if there turns out to be any alignment issues since you’d most likely feel they were responsible since they checked and verified things to be okay
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I don’t know how I or anyone could consider them liable. They didn’t make the barrel or suppressor. I would like to ask them if all the customers with suppressors bring their own rods or just come in and fire away.
I’m sure that 98% just fire away. I would tell you that I don’t use alignment rods to check and have never had an issue. However, I’m not going to do that because it’s a sure-fire way to get a baffle strike.
One quick and dirty way to check suppressor alignment is to mount the muzzle device and can, and then look down the bore from the breach end towards a light. If you see a perfect circle, everything is GTG; if you see an oval, then your alignment is off.
A use a LGS that has a range and while I’m waiting in NFA jail I’m free to come shoot it all I want. I can’t take possession and leave with it until approved, but being able to use it whenever I want turns the wait essentially into no wait at all.
I’ve currently have 2 cans waiting for approval here in E TN. My dealer said I could come by anytime during business hours and shoot them off their back deck. Sounds like it depends on the dealer’s policies.
I don’t know if some of you are actually reading the thread or not. They have NO PROBLEM with me coming in to use the can. What they won’t do is slide a bore alignment rod into it until my atf approval.
Yea, they don’t want the liability if you get a bad round or something and a strike and then blame them because they said alignment was fine.
It may have happened to them already and now they cant trust anyone.
Do the eyeball test or bring your own check rod.
I still don’t get this logic. If they gauge and it’s off how are they at fault. Explain the problem and solution to a person that doesn’t understand the situation. Nothing falls on them. They are just pointing out a potential problem if it exists.
That was what I was saying as well. Think of it this way…we currently live in a society with people that no longer accept responsibility for anything and place blame on others for everything. It sounds like they’ve probably had a situation in the past where they did check alignment and when a baffle strike occurred afterwards the customer wanted them to take responsibility. It’s the same reason you now see disclaimers for everything. Blame it on all the people that look for opportunities to place blame on others to get their way.
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You could also make the argument that by allowing a customer to use a suppressor without first verifying the alignment, the gun shop would be liable for the damage. As far as I know, they are not legally obliged to let you use the suppressor. That’s entirely at their discretion. It’s a moot point now. I’ll take a rod in and verify it myself.
Seems like an odd policy decision. They are fine with you firing rounds through it but not pushing a rod? That’s a little weird.
It’s your can, you paid for it, you just cant have it yet. If you go in to “shoot it” and happen to bring a rod are they gonna stop you?
Their shop their rules I suppose but it’s strange.
You are reasonable, most people aren’t. They are covering their ass.