The push to make silencers legal comes as shootings are up in Chicago, 14 percent last year to 2,500. Sheriff Dart says legalizing silencers wouldn't help. "Would it further embolden people?

Silencers are meant to reduce the sound, recoil and flash of a firearm. Democrats and gun control advocates argue the silencers make it harder for law enforcement to respond to an active shooter.

Firearm silencers could soon get deregulated if the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cleared the House early in the day Thursday, survives the Senate.

Three years after Congress passed the most significant gun control bill in decades, Republicans are pushing to do away with a federal registration requirement on gun silencers.

The massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by July 4 would loosen regulations on gun silencers and certain types of rifles and shotguns.

Proponents of silencer deregulation argue that suppressors reduce hearing damage for recreational shooters and make gun ranges less disruptive to neighbors.

The massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by July 4 would loosen regulations on gun silencers and certain types of rifles and shotguns, advancing a lon… ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican efforts to loosen regulations on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns have been dealt a big setback with the Senate parliamentarian advising that the ...

The House bill would remove silencers from a 1930s law that regulates firearms that are considered the most dangerous.