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Carrying a silencer through California

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I am planning a motorcycle trip to Arizona and I want to bring A couple of silencers along. I am planning on traveling through California and I need to know if California is like other states that allow free through travel if your gun is legal where you are coming from and legal where you are going.
 
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Agent 47 wrote:
I am planning a motorcycle trip to Arizona and I want to bring A couple of silencers along. I am planning on traveling through California and I need to know if California is like other states that allow free through travel if your gun is legal where you are coming from and legal where you are going.
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California Penal Code 12520. Any person, firm, or corporation who within this state possesses a silencer is guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison or by a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or by both.

Since a silencer is not considered a "firearm", then U.S. Code Title 18, Part 1, Chap 44, does not apply.

If you get caught with any silencer while in California, expect to be staying in California for a period of several years.
 
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Agent 47 wrote:
I am planning a motorcycle trip to Arizona and I want to bring A couple of silencers along. I am planning on traveling through California and I need to know if California is like other states that allow free through travel if your gun is legal where you are coming from and legal where you are going.
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Californias motto is "Come for Vacation, Leave on Probation"

you couldn't pay me to step foot in that state.
 
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Unless you're an 07/SOT, you can't bring a can through Kali. Send them to your house through the mail. What cans do you have?
 
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Agent 47 wrote:
I am planning a motorcycle trip to Arizona and I want to bring A couple of silencers along. I am planning on traveling through California and I need to know if California is like other states that allow free through travel if your gun is legal where you are coming from and legal where you are going.
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Silencers are not banned by the federal government and 35 states allow civilians to own them but they require BATFE authorization to own. No license or permit is required; just fill out the ATF form 4 (to buy) or ATF from 1 (to make) and get the local sheriff to sign it. Send it in with finger print cards, passport photos and the $200 tax check. Approval is routine (takes 1-2 months) and I have never heard of the ATF disapproving a transfer as long as the forms were filled out correctly.


That being said, my advise is not to carry a silencer interstate under any conditions through the Peoples Demokratik Republik of Kalifornia.
 
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Gunslinger wrote:
Silencers are not banned by the federal government and 35 states allow civilians to own them but they require BATFE authorization to own. No license or permit is required; just fill out the ATF form 4 (to buy) or ATF from 1 (to make) and get the local sheriff to sign it. Send it in with finger print cards, passport photos and the $200 tax check. Approval is routine (takes 1-2 months) and I have never heard of the ATF disapproving a transfer as long as the forms were filled out correctly.
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What is your purposein telling me this?
I was not asking how to get a silencer, I already own six of them. Of course they are all legal and I did the paperwork on all of them, got that down pat.


Otherwise, thanks for the advise I guess I will look into UPS'ing them to myself.
 
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Gunslinger wrote:
Agent 47 wrote:
I am planning a motorcycle trip to Arizona and I want to bring A couple of silencers along. I am planning on traveling through California and I need to know if California is like other states that allow free through travel if your gun is legal where you are coming from and legal where you are going.
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Silencers are not banned by the federal government and 35 states allow civilians to own them but they require BATFE authorization to own. No license or permit is required; just fill out the ATF form 4 (to buy) or ATF from 1 (to make) and get the local sheriff to sign it. Send it in with finger print cards, passport photos and the $200 tax check. Approval is routine (takes 1-2 months) and I have never heard of the ATF disapproving a transfer as long as the forms were filled out correctly.


That being said, my advise is not to carry a silencer interstate under any conditions through the Peoples Demokratik Republik of Kalifornia.
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Well, obviously since Agent47 was planning on bringing a couple of silencers along with him, it would be a reasonable assumption that he already has a couple of silencers.

And since he has already been informed that California Penal Code Section 12520 makes possession of a silencer a FELONY, I highly doubt that he would be carrying one through the state.
 
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Agent 47 wrote:
Gunslinger wrote:
Silencers are not banned by the federal government and 35 states allow civilians to own them but they require BATFE authorization to own. No license or permit is required; just fill out the ATF form 4 (to buy) or ATF from 1 (to make) and get the local sheriff to sign it. Send it in with finger print cards, passport photos and the $200 tax check. Approval is routine (takes 1-2 months) and I have never heard of the ATF disapproving a transfer as long as the forms were filled out correctly.
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What is your purposein telling me this?
I was not asking how to get a silencer, I already own six of them. Of course they are all legal and I did the paperwork on all of them, got that down pat.


Otherwise, thanks for the advise I guess I will look into UPS'ing them to myself.
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My 'purpose' was to pass on information you may not have been aware of under Federal Law. As you are evidently aware of it, take it for what it was intended.
 
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Agent 47 wrote:
I am planning a motorcycle trip to Arizona and I want to bring A couple of silencers along. I am planning on traveling through California and I need to know if California is like other states that allow free through travel if your gun is legal where you are coming from and legal where you are going.
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This is the Republic of Kalifornia! We're lucky that we can even own guns here. If LE finds out that you ave silencers, you're going away for awhile.

Good luck!
 
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