Threaded barrel on a 22lr rifle?

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Quick question, didn't see anything in a quick search. Recently was looking at a savage a22/b22, it has a threaded barrel. What's the purpose of this? I know that you can probably put a barrel brake on it but it seems extra for a 22lr. Are there any other reasons? And if you do want one, would it have to be a savage specific part? or is there some other sizing to look at. Thanks
 
I've got a (dlask) linear compensator on mine, and it creates a *very* noticeable sound change for the shooter by pushing the blast forward/down range.
 
I believe in some jurisdictions a suppressor is mandatory. Here in Canada according to our government, suppressors are a prohibited device that will result in criminal charges. Pew, pew.
 
Yes.. suppressors are legal and mandatory in some places in England... legal in the US...

Some how the Canadian authorities got it backwards and made them prohibited...
 
guntech said:
Yes.. suppressors are legal and mandatory in some places in England... legal in the US...

Some how the Canadian authorities got it backwards and made them prohibited...
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They watched too many Hollywood movies. You know, when the movie villain screws on a "silencer" so his pistol or revolver sounds like a popcorn fart. The same for rifles regardless of the cartridge used. Nothing more than a whisper pew, pew according to Hollywood and the Canadian government, lol. Also I think a big part of the problem was manufactures marketed them as "silencers" in decades past.
 
=for suppressors, if referring to 22LR rifles. If you see any model# designation that shows "SR", my understanding is that it refers to "suppressor ready". In Canada, things like linear brakes or faux suppressors are an option.

Suppressors? Big no-no in Canada for no actual/practical reason...but there were no assault rifles in the OIC either, in spite of our government telling Canadians there were 1,500 models posing a threat to Canadians. Like my dad used to say about some people; "they don't let the facts get in the way of a good story". My guess is that one too many James Bond movies were taken too seriously, and that owning a suppressor must make law abiding gun owners into super-villains. It's ridiculous that we can't have them under any circumstance, even registered. :p

11,127 Canadians signed a petition in an attempt to have some civilized discourse on the topic of sound moderators (=suppressors) via Petition E-575 a few years back. If you haven't been spoken to like a 5 year old child lately, take a look at the response the government tabled. (Jody Wilson)

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-575

Basically, if you're too dumb to figure out you can use ear protection and want a sound moderator to protect your hearing=you must have criminal intent. Yeah, right.
 
Huge quantum leap here. IF THE GOVERNMENT WAS SMART hahahah theyd allow them with a tax stamp! Maybe that could put two shovels of dirt in the hole the size of the Grand Canyon that Justhim Turdeau has dug for all of Canada. Hopefully they dont SILENCE ME
 
It's doubtful Hollywood movies are responsible for the prohibition on silencers in Canada. Apparently silencers been illegal in Canada since 1900, long before Hollywood movie villians used sound suppressors and could allegedly influence politicians.
 
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It's doubtful Hollywood movies are responsible for the prohibition on silencers in Canada. Apparently silencers been illegal in Canada since 1900, long before Hollywood movie villians used sound suppressors and could allegedly influence politicians.
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Hard to imagine silencers being made illegal in Canada since 1900 when Hiram Maxim didn't develop it until 1902 and wasn't granted a patent until 1909 or 1910. Right around the same time the first Hollywood movie studio appeared. But I'm working from memory here. It may take a little digging but now I'm curious to find the earliest movie depicting a "silencer".
 
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I believe in some jurisdictions a suppressor is mandatory. Here in Canada according to our government, suppressors are a prohibited device that will result in criminal charges. Pew, pew.
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Not really... criminals with no licenses whatever often get all the illegal firearm offences dropped or not even charged with them to start with...
 
grauhanen said:
It's doubtful Hollywood movies are responsible for the prohibition on silencers in Canada. Apparently silencers been illegal in Canada since 1900, long before Hollywood movie villians used sound suppressors and could allegedly influence politicians.
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I think suppressors became illegal around WWII... maybe a bit sooner... I see the internet says they were illegal in Canada in 1900... but they were not invented until 1902 and it was 1908 when they became readily available... it was in the 1930's in the US when regulations were formed concerning them.

One of the first ones I saw an ex RCMP had here in Victoria... on a trombone... he had confiscated it from the owner in Saskatchewan back in the 40's. He was now using it to shoot crows in Oak Bay... I have no idea where it is now, I am sure he has passed on... maybe another cop has it...
 
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guntech said:
I think suppressors became illegal around WWII... maybe a bit sooner... I see the internet says they were illegal in Canada in 1900... but they were not invented until 1902 and it was 1908 when they became readily available... it was in the 1930's in the US when regulations were formed concerning them.
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I appreciate the correction to my previous post. Hiram Percy Maxim, son of the Maxim machine gun inventor, is credited with "inventing" the silencer in 1902 and getting a patent for it by 1909. Of course, considering the relatively simple job that silencers do, variations on sound-reducing muzzle devices on firearms, as well as makeshift apparatuses, may have been around for some time before the turn of the century.

The information indicating that silencers have been illegal in Canada since 1900 comes from legalbeagle.com in a section ostensibly "reviewed" by Canadian lawyer Michelle Seidel. If Seidel is incorrect, it is evidence that everyone can make mistakes.

Regarding the causal effect of movie silencers resulting in silencer prohibition in Canada, it would be revealing to see evidence of any relationship.

It's been suggested that the legal animus to silencers in Canada may be linked with fears of their use by poachers, whose activities were likely increased during the depression when unemployment was very high.
 
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If our masters introduce a points system for banning firearms, you can bet that threaded barrels will be on it along with pistol grips and bayonet lugs.
 
My comment of possible link between movies and the Canadian government prohibiting silencers was somewhat flippant. I first learned about silencers from Hollywood movies. There is no denying that most people's 'knowledge' of firearms came from watching movies and then later from TV shows. Case in point, silencers don't make firearms near silent as depicted in movies and TV shows. Around the same time c1934 when the Canadian government required handgun registration; seems a more logical time to prohibit silencers than turn of the century 1900. Hard to believe the Canadian government had that kind of foresight on a device that was two years away from being developed and then marketed.
 
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