For those in the US, the BBB has now kicked in and the tax cost for filing a Form 1 has dropped to $0. The only thing stopping you from building your own suppressor (or SBR!) is paperwork.
Do it, you owe it to yourself to have dozens of these things. They’re basic hearing protection devices; don’t let anyone tell you any different. File more Form 1s than you have guns and build them all out. Here’s what you need to know:
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How to file a Form 1. See our fresh new wiki’s guide on that or OpenPew Project’s slick website for more (he wrote the guide on the wiki, too – go give him love). You’ll need to do your prints, which is easily done through OpenPew’s site for a small cost or via free methods detailed in the aforementioned guides.
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Where to find a can to print. Here are the most popular designs from this year, such as:
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The FTN 5 by the resurgent plaboi, alongside all his older works
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OpenPew’s suppressor customizer – you can make one to your own specifications, including offset-bore for those running pistols or other low-sight setups
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The Pill Popper V2 by Middleton
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And a lot more, from OKB-69 stuff, 300BLK’s FTN remixes, and various original works and adaptations
If you’re looking for something cheap and light for your subguns or .300blks, these are serious contenders. For rimfire, there’s no reason to go metal at all anymore. And for supersonic rifle rounds? Print the right designs in a high-temp plastic and you’ll get some serious courses of fire out of them.
FAQ:
Q: Why would I want to print a suppressor over buying one?
A: Cost (it’s a fucking factor of 100 difference), weight, open-source, no chance shipping fucks you, no middlemen, access to innovative designs… And frankly, some of them just look really cool. An FTN in a CF tube is a serious vibe.
Q: Why do I want a suppressor at all?
A: Protecting your hearing is no joke. If you don’t care about yours, do it for the sake of those around you. Suppressors are basic PPE and the fact that they’re regulated at all is a travesty. Print a bunch and bring that fact to light to those around you; it helps build cases for the lawyers trying to tear the NFA down.
Q: Do I need to have the ability to print Nylons?
A: For rimfire: no, absolutely not. For subguns: not every design is built for PLA+, but you can get by if you need to. For rifles: don’t try it (treat subsonic .300blk like a subgun though).
Q: Can I print the can and then file the form? Or print it while I wait for it to come back?
A: Don’t, that’s illegal. If you decide to “FMDA” it, don’t post about it here.
Q: Do I need extra parts?
A: Depends on the design. Most will need thread adapters or muzzle devices to use as hosts, some need sleeves (aluminum or CF), and some are PIP and ready-to-go off the printer.
Q: Is the Form 1 tax $0 for anything else?
A: Yes, and the biggest thing on that list outside cans is SBRs. The aforementioned guides touch on that process a little bit.
Spread this signal far, far and wide. This year, we have the opportunity to show everyone the advantages our medium brings, the innovation we’ve cultivated, and just how nicely we fit this newfound niche. We have the ultimate in customizability, the coolest franken-guns, and now we have $10 silencers.
Talk to the laymen: the people who think suppressors are for Hollywood hitmen, the noobs at the range, the skeptics, and the unaware. Pull them aboard. Every single person you show your suppressor to is another mind made aware of the reality of these things, and the brainspace of the layman is a powerful thing for, say, a lawyer dismantling the NFA to point to.
Happy new year, everyone. Here’s to 2026 and all your hearing.
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I’m not gonna say it’s bait…
But man this feels like bait. Groups on both sides of the isle desperately want to defang gun owners, and having a log of those who may be more dangerous feels like a trap. But maybe that’s just my PTSD talking?
Either way: I’m pogging rn. This will significantly improve supressor technology the world over.
I mean I already have non printed ones. They coming for me no matter what. I am just here to enjoy the time I have with them and the newly printed ones:)
Definitely bait. Still needing to file with fingerprints and photos is a non-starter for me.
That was my first thought as well. But after a bit I realized that this is going to start eating into their budget. First there is all the money they are use to getting from this BS, and second, this is going to only take money from their budget from here on. Especially if the registrations go up because it doesn’t cost money, only time.
Either they (ATF) win an argument for a larger budget to pay for it or they start arguing against having the responsibility.
And there is the constitutional argument about this no longer being legal if there is no tax collected.
Thanks for posting!
Someone was watching the control numbers while submitting multiple form1s right after midnight, and it was increasing at a rate of 55/minute in the first few hours. I am really interested to see how many applications are submitted this year.
I submitted quite a few SBR and suppressor applications this morning. Fingers crossed that one of the lawsuits is successful that is challenging the “tax registry” justification now that there is no tax, but I’m going to get enough approved stamps to last my lifetime before the next budget reconciliation bill. It could just as easily go to $10k stamps if those lawsuits are unsuccessful and they’re not removed from the NFA entirely.
Let’s bump those numbers up so far that nobody can argue they aren’t in common use.
If we keep that pace the whole year, we’ll have enough cans to stretch the majority of the Nile.
I really wanna see these things everywhere, man.
Control numbers for my two submissions around 0900 zulu were 20 minutes and 141 control numbers apart. That’s 7/min for those who can’t math. I was actually pleasantly surprised that the system was still working and responsive. I figured you animals would have brought it to its knees by the time I jumped on :)
Shoot, one has already been reported as approved! They must have the process entirely automated, since it is a national holiday?
No fucking way. Did you file as an individual or use a trust? Did you get in right after midnight?
All were approved today! 8 day turnaround for form 1s is not bad at all
Wasn’t me, unfortunately. Posted by JJGS260 on Reddit, an individual form4 that was submitted right after midnight.
I commend you.
This is bound to eat into their budget… which is a good thing no matter how you look at it.
1/1/26 FTN.3 9MM 1/1/26 Maelstrom 9MM 1/1/26 SLIM22 22LR 1/1/26 HUBTN.4 556 1/1/26 HUBTN.4 300 1/1/26 REDBULL 22 SUPPRESSOR 22LR 1/1/26 FTN.3 22LR 1/1/26 MAGA 22 22LR 1/1/26 FTN.5 300 1/1/26 SLIM22 22LR 1/1/26 FTN.4 EZ PISTOL 9mm 1/1/26 FTN EZ 300
Done.
Love to see, it but why FTN.3??
Bro nice to see you alive and well! You been missed
Appreciate it brother!
Typo. LOL
Excellent designs, thank you very much.
I am releasing my own design soon, you might have made a comment on it, the desktop CNC one.
Really hope I can give something back to the community.
Thanks again!
Looking forward to seeing your design!
Just a thought, and don’t know the legality or potential liability of this, but maybe adding something in the wiki about what to say and pictures to add in the section about materials on the form 1 for 3DP suppressors may be helpful for many. Again just a thought! Thanks for posting this as I’m sure many will find this useful!
Just put the roll/estimated print info, 300g fiberon/siraya tech/bambu pa6/ppa/pps-cf/gf etc. With a lathe and welder you would put 2" x 6-10" gr5 Ti etc. The minimum wage desk jockey is not a subject expert, they won’t know what the fuck you’re talking about regardless, it’s for proof of work in a court setting so give your potential lawyer solid ammunition to mic drop and send you home
Can’t stop the signal!
Jan 1st: Eat Cabbage Submit tons of Form 1s
Anyone tried PPS baffles over PA6? The rigidity of PPS has benefits and drawbacks, in that it will dampen the forces of expanding gas less, which could make for a quantifiable reduction in sound suppression, it has lower layer adhesion, but higher temperature resistance. If you go with glass filled, it can also have strong insulative properties in addition to the flame retardency. It has also been shown to have nearly no creep under loads below yield, meaning that as long as it’s able to stand the impact, it might genuinely have better durability than nylon.
We have extremely limited experience with PPS-CF.
If you are making D cell baffles, I expect that they would perform very well, because layer adhesion is not relevant. There is some concern for brittleness, so it is possible that a high pressure rifle caliber could cause a thin baffle design to snap. But from an erosion perspective, it should do very well.
We do have experience with PPA-CF and can say that PPA-CF performs phenomenally well as a baffle. Much less erosion than PA6CF.
D cell baffles start to show pretty heavy erosion with pps-cf within 300 or 400 rounds. I just keep rearranging them so the most eroded is at the muzzle end
In fairness I’m not exactly polite to them. 9mm, and I usually dump 6 mags with my sphynx so around 90 rounds in 90 seconds
That’s really interesting information, I am pretty surprised to be honest.
That is pretty hard use, 6 mags back to back, but I would have expected PPS-CF to handle that.
Have you tried PPA-CF? or PA6-CF?
Not pa6 but PPA is pretty similar to pps in wear. Both were annealed and printed at 330°c
Hmm, thats interesting. I would love to see some pics sometime if you got them. In our experience, PPA-CF had performed exceptionally well to even 556.
Granted, our schedule of fire was lower than what you were describing, when testing the FTN.5
And during the FTN.4, PPA-CF wasn’t really a thing yet, nobody in the beta was printing it
Double-check the FTN docs – wanna say they touch on that.
They touch on it for the muzzle device shroud, but not the baffles themselves
Ugh, I submitted my first FTN.5 Rimfire form1 just fine but the next 2 I tried to submit have run into an error when I tried to submit them.
Their system sucks (tax dollars at work), just keep trying to submit. There was one period where it took an hour of continuous attempts and getting the error till it finally gave me a submitting number.
I submitted a few different forms and then went back and got those drafts submitted later. The control numbers jumped about 4000 in the 90 minutes it took to get the submissions to work again
Yeah this site blows ass lmao. But if you’re like me and you stay up until the wee hours of the morning, it works pretty consistently.
I’m just planning on submitting 5 every night until I get +100 silencers. Then I may start doing a few SBRs too.
6 put in.
x2 Pill Popper v2 x4 FTN5
Note: The ATF has proposed eliminating this requirement effective Jan 1, 2026. Check current guidelines
Where would we find this information? Can we add a link on the forum for quick checking? I’m on mobile or I’d look this up myself…
Unfortunately this is one of those things that’s still in flux. As of right now, the F1 registration process is still going to demand your CLEO’s info.
Wiki’s been updated.
As it’s just a matter of time before the ATF cracks down on improvised suppressors, I wonder what they are going to restrict / regulate. I imagine probably thread adapters? Is there a possible future concern of them regulating thread adapters? I don’t think so because thread adapters can be used for cars, which gives you plausible deniability in that regard. What do you guys think?
I don’t think they’re gonna do shit. I think they’re wondering why half of their queue right now is potatoes from people memeing.
Even if they did regulate thread adapters, we’d just do direct-thread printed 1/2x28. It wouldn’t be as good but it’d be alright.
I don’t think they’re gonna do shit.
especially if they are no longer making any money
Hold up, can someone elaborate on the “right-to-repair” portion? I thought that even if you made your own suppressor, you still could not service it unless you had a class 7 FFL… are you saying that you CAN repair/service your own suppressor if you build it?
And if so, would the metal thread adapter be the registered part, or the body of the can?
You do need to file the Form 1, but nobody’s gatekeeping the design docs from you.
Every part of the suppressor is the registered part. Suppressor parts are suppressors, legally speaking, even if they don’t physically have the serial stamped on them.
Okay, I’m clear on that portion now, but my question is essentially this: if I submit and get a Form 1 approved and then 3D print/self-manufacture a suppressor, am I (as the maker) allowed to fix it if it breaks?
For instance, if there is a baffle strike, or the thread adapter interface cracks, this post (by mentioning “right-to-repair”) makes it seem as if it’s legally OK to re-print a baffle/endcap/other part, which it is not, unless you are a manufacturer under an FFL AFAIK
A 3D-printed suppressor makes sense from a material cost standpoint, but as I understand it, you cannot legally repair/replace/reprint any part of the suppressor (other than a thread adapter) as a non-FFL without filling out another Form 1
I’ve edited the post language – clearly I need to research more about right-to-repair, as it seems to not necessarily be a subset of open-source as I’d thought and I certainly don’t want to misconstrue the facts.
Is PLA+ suitable for the .22lr FTN.5?
Read the docs (they say yes).
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What? Not too fond of people saving the hearing of themselves and those around them? Or are you a real big fan of government overreach and unnecessary regulation for the purpose of oppression of the lower class?
These things were thousands of dollars before. The only thing they kept out was the poor. Are they not entitled to their hearing?
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