I'm in the process of purchasing a 9mm suppressor. Seems like all the places I've looked are running super low on inventory. For example, Silencer Shop lists 60 suppressors rated for 9mm. Of those 60, they only have 10 in stock - with a couple of them showing they only have a couple or a handful remaining. The remaining 50 are out of stock or backordered. I've noticed similar results with other online suppressor retailers as well as my local dealer. I did a cursory look at rimfire inventory and found a very similar result. Think it's the quicker reported approval times are causing people to order more suppressors? Can the manufacturers not keep up with demand? It's irritating because there are one or two 9mm cans I'd like to get but they are backordered or out of stock. The one I purchased is on backorder. I bought it 3 weeks ago and it's still backordered... It's  nuts!

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Fast approvals have people deciding now is the time to buy.

This right here.

I've already had several approved in under 48 hours.

Expect demand to increase

Seems reasonable. Makes me want to purchase another suppressor just to see a two day turn.

This. Because of the very fast approvals, everyone is buying, so dealers are low on inventory. Also because of this many manufacturer's are low or out of stock and behind on products being available.

It’s 100% this.  I got a five day approval so I bought 4 more.

Lol, Pepperidge Farm remembers when Dead Air was the new hotness.

What a load of horseshit.

This.
Nothing spurs NFA sales like fast approval times.

are the fast approvals only individual vs. trust?  I read that somewhere...thanks

Right
But things happened
A lot
This didn’t happen in a vacuum

LGS had a 26 can batch approval.    

I'd say people are buying.     My last approvals were less than 2 actual days, and 3 business days each.

Seriously.

There’s no rhyme or reason to it. I just hit 35 days on an eform 4 individual. I’ve seen both individuals and trusts that were certified after mine and they’re already approved. It’s a crapshoot.

When you can get an approval in under a week, everyone is buying tons of suppressors. (Except me. I’m hanging out at 73 days because fuck me.)

That and it's also an election year.

Some jackass had to go brag in GD about "Look at my fast approval time" and now everybody knows.

Yeah I'm at over 30 days on one too. I did get a 3.5 and 2 month approval, I thought that was fast.

Yeah, I’m at almost 120 days on one and about 75 days on another. But I didn’t expect much different since I have some stuff on my record from about 45 years ago. You’d think that would be overlooked at this point with nothing going on since then. PITA…

It’s time to put that to bed as an excuse.  The last time that may have been a semi-valid excuse was is 2016 when it looked like Hillary might win, and even then it was iffy.

Not my father in law

Yep, goes to show how much the slow approvals had a chilling effect on the market.

Fast approvals lead to higher demand, which will lead to fewer in stock, which will lead to skyrocketing prices

Any concern for a swing back? I suspect these people will run out of money. If they had the expendable income to just keep buying cans whenever they want to, they would have done so, and said damn the wait. If you have to save up over a year, having your money tied up another 9 months without gain is more of a psychological deterrent than for a single dude right after his 12th contract deployment with a paid off house and bills paid in advance.

absolutely.

Problem is, now there's nothing to buy.    

Preach it! Economy is worse than it's been in quite a while. Shit's expensive...

Of note, suppressors continue to dwindle. Since I started this post, the Fly 9 has sold out and the Mojave 9 is getting very low. I haven't seen any out of stock or backorders come back available yet...

I know right?

Whoda thunk three years of Trump dumping billions of dollars of free money into the economy would drive inflation?

Oh yeah, anybody who knows how economies work.

Trumpites asked for this shit!

Cans are addictive.   They might buy one because the waits are short.  Then they buy more and more.

Pretty soon you find yourself avoiding people who don't use suppression... someone calls you, asks if you want to go blasting, and at first your heart beats rapid cause you love blasting, then your realize your old friend doesn't use, and so you ask, "hey man, you gonna bring that .300 RUM with the big muzzle break?"  and he's like, "yah' it loud as f, I'm bringing it."  So you lie, say can't go cause your wife is going out and you gotta watch the kids.

You drift more and more from people who don't use cans.  

Broke?  You run into the same guys at the plasma center selling their veins week after week, chasing those decibels.  You can chase that dragon all you want, but the can builders keep coming out with newer and better designs, soon the stuff that used sound so sweet and pleasing isn't enough anymore.  

Wife wants to book a cruise?  No you, need that money for cans.  You find yourself faking a collapse of Haiti, claim there are cannibal gangs.   She wants to cruise the Med?  Fake a war in Gaza.   Alaska?  Can't, Russia might attack.    

The lies don't stop there.   Your wife finds your oven mitt.  You tell her it's because you're cooking meth in the garage, but she doesn't buy it.   Soon it starts adding up, the pictures come together like the scenes in a movie when they figured out who killed who or how a crime was done.   She sees the oven mitt, the needle marks in your arms, realizes you left your ear pro at home the last time you "went shooting with the guys."  You know she knows.   She sniffs you and smells gunpowder on your collar, but a new smell... white lithium grease from your booster assembly.  

You have two choices at that point, to continue the lie or share the addiction.    She'll never believe you have a drug addiction, so you tell the truth, you buy cans.   You take her out.   Two weeks later she's skipping Bunko parties, selling candles and the kids are eating peanut butter sammiches five days a week so she can buy her own suppressors and hosts.  

Finally, you think all is good, you have all the cans you want, life is good, I can just go shooting suppressed with the guys.

Then your dealer says "check this out, additive manufacturing, they can make stuff that just can't be machined, it's sounds so good."

Let them try stopping at one.    

shit, you’re right. I just checked my oven mitts, and yep. SiCo and NSN.

I was planning on picking up a 556 SOCOM can "sometime". With the supposed quicker approvals, I jumped on a 9mm can, just because. I fucked up and went single shot trust.
After many seconds of research, I decided that can needs to be "dedicated" to my MPX, so I jumped over and ordered a 2nd 9mm can for my pistols.

SOCOM556 cans are still showing "backorder" so... just waiting. Not really interested in dropping 2K on the new RC3, the RC2 or SB2 will suit me just fine

Everyone is trying to get in on the quick approvals and the dealers are slammed. The best you can do is either sign up for back in stock notification or backorder and hope to get allocated whenever your can is replenished.

I randomly checked Silencer Shop online chat support today and there were 90 people ahead of me in the queue before I closed it out.

Capitol Armory just got a large shipment from Surefire and currently have the SB2 in stock in Black and FDE.

My brother in Christ what do you mean what is going on… lol

Not everybody hangs out at ARFCOM

I hear you OP. I've been waiting months, money in hand, for a YHM Resonator to pop up again. I'm already invested in the mount system, so switching platforms is a no-go.

Glad you guys are doing well

Picked up my Caracal today

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Buy another brand and use the YHM hub…?

I ordered 5 cans since end of October, received two. I wanted one more but I'm not going to backorder something like this. The wait time for a backorder has got to be ridiculous.

Depends. My OCL polonium was two weeks. And I didn’t make the first backorder batch SS received. From what I understand the back order list is growing with each day. You have a choice, get in line now or hopefully find what you want locally or through notification/hourly browsing on CA and be fast with the keyboard.

CA's notifications have gotten me twice this month. I had ordered an EA Ferox, then got a notification the Turbo K RB was in. I've wanted one for a while and they've been out since December, so I jumped quickly on it.

Then yesterday morning I got an in-stock notification for an EA ARX. I was like WTF? I've wanted to get a second one of those for a long time but Kedminster said they weren't putting those back in production for the foreseeable future. Turns out it was a demo can, but only 500rds on it. So suppressor #3 in the pipeline.

Including the two 9mm cans that I had purchased in December and just got approved, that's 5 cans for me this year already.

So you’re the reason it was OOS by the time I saw the email…

The in stock emails are very delayed from my experience. My nomad L was in stock about 10 hours before I got the email. Hence why I say it’s best to check hourly.

I’ve had a back order ordered for over 3 weeks now…. Frustrating.