The Freedom Group also bought S&K industries, which supplies wood and laminate for gun stocks, as well as the Advanced Armament Corporation, which makes silencers.
Now the gun industry, which for decades has complained about the restrictions, is pursuing new legislation to make silencers easier to buy, and a key backer is Donald Trump Jr., an avid hunter and the oldest son of the president-elect, who campaigned as a friend of the gun industry.
The people who want to make silencers more easily available point to a range of other tactical benefits.
Lawmakers say their push to end those requirements and thereby make silencers more easily available is about protecting the hearing of gun owners exposed to high-volume blasts while hunting or target shooting.
During that earnings call, American Outdoor Brands president and CEO James Debney suggested the corporation's recent purchase of Gemtech, a suppressor manufacturer, was cause for optimism, especially in light of the possible congressional action to make silencers easier to buy.
Last June, Congress postponed a hearing that would have made buying silencers easier after Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La, was shot at the Congressional baseball game.
He also had a book on how make a silencer for a rifle, the complaint said.
He says he redrew the men's blueprints but stopped short of actually making the silencer (which is illegal).
One pile of documents included photocopies from a step-by-step weapons manual that explain, with helpful photographs, how to make a silencer for a submachine gun or.22-caliber pistol.
Mr. Patterson, a Las Vegas maintenance man, said that in the months before Mrs. Silverman was last seen, he sold the Kimeses four guns and taught them how to make a silencer out of a potato.
Windle was also a gun collector, so Parrish attempted to bait him into making a silencer for him, which is a federal crime.
