State Law Now Decides Where the Suppressor Rush Turns Into Sales

A New Hampshire store's 128-suppressor Saturday and Alaska's request for a legislative fix both trace back to ATF's Oct. 9 guidance on suppressors. The federal change created one national market on paper and a patchwork of state markets in practice, with every statute that leans on NFA registration acting as its own gate. For makers already short on cans, that state map is now the allocation plan.