Does that mean I can’t be charged if I use a silence in a non-violent crime?
I just want to keep my notes clear.
No. 18 USC 924 also covers non violent offenses but the punishments for those are less.
I’m just trying to figure out a non-violent federal offence with a silencer.
Smoking weed out of it?
Destruction of property across state lines.
Like breaking a window with a silencer?
If it is attached to a gun that you use to break a window, yeah it counts. I guess you could theoretically throw it through a window across state lines, though which is kinda hilarious.
Come to think of it, there’s a world of possibilities.
If you diced an onion with a silencer and then dried the onions and then sold them as onion rings without saying that the onion rings were made from dried diced onions, that would definitely be breaking a federal law with a silencer in a non-violent way.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-102/subpart-B/section-102.39
You could also use the silencer to illegally open a gate and allow a horse to eat grass at the small bit of lawn surrounding the booth where you pay to enter a national park.
