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#10MinuteTalk | Lawsuit Filed Against ATF ­— Silencer Shop Breaks It Down

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Silencer Shop founder, Dave Matheny, breaks down their lawsuit against the ATF and the current state of suppressor regulations. The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of keeping suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), and Any Other Weapons (AOWs) under the National Firearms Act (NFA). The aim is to eliminate outdated, costly, and restrictive regulations that encumber lawful gun owners, with support drawn from historical precedent and recent legislative momentum around H.R.1, the “Big Beautiful Bill".

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic here, joined by Mr. Dave Mathini from the silencer shop,

0:07.9

and we're going to be covering some, a little state of the suppressor industry slash, you know,

0:14.6

suppressor environment podcast here. And because there's some, there's some new developments and some things going on that we should

0:21.9

all be aware of in uh in the suppressor world so uh dave number one thanks for joining us it sounds

0:27.7

like you're just you know hot off a trip right now and you guys have a lot going on but

0:32.5

if you can maybe give us you know high level quick and dirty as far as like what silencer shop? What do you guys do? And what are the services that you get, that you, uh, that you offer? Yeah. I mean, really, it's really two parts. We sell silencers, uh, through, through our website or through any one of our dealers. We have about 8,000 dealers around the country any dealers of power by solencers shop

0:54.3

dealers is really going to be using us for their paperwork too so uh we sell the silencers and we do

0:59.7

the paperwork gotcha gotcha and i know we have one of your machines downstairs downstairs here

1:05.0

at vortex i haven't used it yet myself but i certainly intend to here at some point in the near

1:10.0

future yeah it's pretty, you know,

1:12.5

pretty cut and dry. I mean, you guys simplify the process. That's right. Yep, that is from the

1:18.6

very beginning that's been the goal, make it as easy as possible to buy a spressor. Without,

1:23.6

you know, going, I guess, too deep, but like what does that process look like for a customer? You know, realistically, step one, you just buy a announcer, right? Go into a dealer, check it out, buy this houselenser, get it off our website. It's all kind of the same. Step two, go to one of our kiosks. That usually takes five to ten minutes, and you only have to do it on the first first purchase once you've gone through the kiosk you're good and then after that i mean it's pretty

1:48.4

much just sign you know essentially certify the forms and you're done certify those forms with

1:53.3

ATF every year you have to update your photo but that's kind of a side thing and our system takes care

1:58.6

of that too okay gotcha gotcha well gotcha. Well, you are definitely,

2:03.3

you know, intimately involved, you know, with suppressors and the suppressor industry. What is going

2:10.3

on with the industry right now? Like, what is, you know, any new regulations, things that are

2:14.7

upcoming? I know I know we have some stuff around the first of the year that should be kicking off.

2:19.2

But yeah, I mean, and maybe there's some stuff that I'm not even aware of.

2:22.7

Yeah, seriously, it has been a crazy couple of years.

2:25.8

You think it was what a year and a half ago, wait times dropped from nine months to two or three days overnight.

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