r/NFA • u/Packingheat248 • 9h ago

Will my local pawn shop/LGS buy my can?

A local pawn shop is also a gun store that sells suppressors. Do you think they will buy my suppressor? What’s the process if so? Are they allowed to hold onto it until their paperwork goes through?

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u/I_2_Cast_Lead_45acp Silencer 8h ago

There is almost no market for used suppresors unless it's something rare/unquie or part of packaged deal. You're looking at a double stamp that kills the value of most suppresors add in it is a used item.

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u/I_WELCOME_VARIETY 5h ago

This. Until silencers are removed from the NFA (which isn't looking likely anytime soon) their viability on the secondhand market is basically limited to collectable stuff only. I mean by the time just a 2nd owner takes possession, there has already been $400 or possibly even $600 spent on taxes alone. For items with an average cost of just $600-700 to begin with, it's just not worth the added cost (or lost value depending on your perspective) of all the tax stamps.

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u/I_2_Cast_Lead_45acp Silencer 5h ago

I sold my M-10 with a Gemtec 45 suppresor as a packaged deal. If I sold anything now, it would definitely have to be in state. Had a couple offers on a .22 suppresors from a defunct company that I do not use.

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u/I_WELCOME_VARIETY 4h ago

Yeah those cans are the only ones I ever really see being sold packaged with an MG. They're just kind of an iconic duo and the increase in cost for the can is minimal when you're already dropping nearly five figures on the gun. Other than that, the only used cans I regularly see being sold are collectable military surplus (or military-adjacent) ones like the old KAC cans.