Posted on 01/11/2016 1:02:46 PM PST by Torcert
So you’ve obviously heard about solvent traps and you want to make sure they are legal. Well here’s the good news, they are 100% legal…with conditions.
A solvent trap is just that, a device that allows one to attach a canister, fuel filter, oil filter, etc, to the end of a weapon to catch the solvent that comes out the end of the barrel when cleaning. These devices also catch patches that are run through the barrel as well as the nasty “sneeze†of solvent that flicks off the copper bore brush when coming out the end of the barrel. Solvent traps offer a clean, mess free solution for preventing solvent from staining furniture or clothing. In addition, when you are done cleaning, you simply dispose of the filter.
Are Solvent Traps Legal?
According to the ATF, cleaning devices are not regulated, and rightfully so. When someone uses a solvent trap for purposes other than its intended and legal purposes, that is under ATF’s authority.
I guess a drop behind each ear ....
Acre? What the hectare these solvent traps anyways?
CC
Well you know that were the excrement to intersect the arc of an air movement facilitator one would want to trap certain fluids emerging from muzzle of a fast burning chemical reaction projector device.
So you might want a silencer for a SHTF scenario? In that case, tape a 2 liter bottle to the muzzle of your .22LR rifle.
I cleaned a pistol at the kitchen table the other day to cover up something she was cooking. She agreed mine smelled better.
So true. I use to give all my friends kids fresh spent shotgun shells to smell. Start them young, lol.
I don’t find Channel objection at all. But some Hoppe’s behind the ear, and baby, you got me hook, line and sinker.
Hubba hubba
“Why would I acre if its “legalâ€?”
Because some people have apparently thought of using solvent traps as home-made firearm mufflers, also known as “silencers”.
Typo aside, they’re illegal silencers - well, illegal if you actually shoot thru them, legal if you just pour cleaning fluid thru the barrel.
Yes, of course... going green is the way to go...
We’re saving the planet don’t you know...
We should really point this out the the eco-socialists as a way of ‘reaching across the aisle’ in the spirit of ‘bipartisanship’..
We can clean our guns as everyone sings ‘this land is my land, this land is your land’....
I care?
Hoppes #9 is to a man, what Channel #5 is to a woman.
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Hoppes #9 is to a man, what Chanel #5 is to a woman.
Hickok45 is to a man, what Channel #5 (soaps) is to a woman.
Perhaps we should all follow the lead of Obama and how he has always kept within the rule of law..... /sarc.
Please don’t tell people to do this. Folks are in prison who had washers that the ATF claimed was a suppressor, shoestrings and paperclip that they claimed were machine guns, and the ATF has murdered nursing mothers over the length of a block of wood. This is NOT something to trifle with, people.
And you sight exactly how? ;>)
Yes, people should follow the law as always...
But it wouldn’t hurt to have some extra supplies on hand just in case..
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