suppressors may become easier to get!!

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Originally Posted by sdmc530

Yep, I work for the South Dakota Highway Patrol. Been on watch for almost 12 years now.

In SD to have a suppressor, you have to buy a tax stamp, that is what we call it. Its about $200. Then the one tax stamp allows you to buy one suppressor that you have to declare the caliber. So if you want a .22 you pay the stamp then but the suppressor. If you want another caliber you do the process again. Didn't say it made any sense but that is how SD does it...so you will pay 1K for a suppressor...give or take. OH yea and this process can take as little as 8 months and as long as 2 years. Up to the SD DCI's discretion. This is after you pass the ATF stuff. I know one guy who has one, took him 13 months and he said about 1100 bucks......

I cannot find anything specific related to SD that differentiates the process from the normal Federal one. If I am wrong I apologize. But I believe the one time $200 tax you refer to is the federal one not one for SD specifically? And you are correct as on the Form 4 you file the caliber of the can is required. But they does not mean you can't swap it from one host rifle to the next. The suppressor is an accessory and should be no different there than here in the sense you can change it between many hosts. Buy a .30 caliber can and use it on any .308 or 5.56 you wish. The process is now down to almost four months wait. I'm three months into my latest one and last time I called to check they told me late January.

But the bolded part above I'll ask you to clarify. Are you saying that after you pay the $200 federal tax stamp, file paperwork, get back your approval stamp that you then have to go thru some sort of addtl scrutiny? That would be contrary to how the federal system has it set up?

I'm guessing you're in same mental state as I was before I did my first one? All the reading and advice confused the heck out of me. It was quite mentally intimidating. But in the end you realize it's a very straightforward process that just takes a while.

Well worth the wait once it's over though
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Now how you decide to register it is whole nuther thing. Some people like me had to formulate an NFA trust and put them in the name of it as there are no CLEOs here who would sign off on it. Going the trust route also eliminates need for pictures and fingerprints requirements.