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Hilarious AliExpress rules workaround.

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ataradov:
I was looking for stuff on AliExpress, and a picture caught my eye. The picture looked like a gun silencer, but the description did not make any sense at all: "Aluminum 12" 10" 6" Extension Spiral 1/2-20 1/2-28 5/8-24 M14*1 M14*1L Car Fuel Filter Car Solvent Trap for NAPA 4003 WIX 24003" (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001450369678.html)

With features like "Great for a fuel filter", "Fuel Type: fuel filter(ONLY for car use)", and even a picture inside the car hood.

But the Q&A section contains such gems as "On AK 47 7,62*39 What do you need, tell me please ???" and "Which is ideal for AR15 5.56?"

There are a lot of listings like this, some even advertise exact compatible car types.

Obviously they are trying to dodge prohibition to sell firearm parts, but this made me chuckle.

thm_w:
If you accidentally ever click the wrong item you'll end up with some very weird suggestions.
I remember searching for stainless steel thin wall tubing, and then a bunch of rods with rifling showed up. Clearly intended to be used on long range type rifles.
And then there was the endless wigs, not sure what triggered that.

langwadt:
just make sure to get a license and tax stamp before you buy it if you intend to make it into a suppressor, afaik the penalty for an illegal suppressor is up 10years in prison and up to $250000 fine

BrokenYugo:
I'm fairly certain these are a honeypot. I've even seen dedicated sites selling them, advertising on YouTube. As already mentioned, it's a serious federal crime in the USA if you don't have the proper expensive paperwork.

CatalinaWOW:
This perhaps illustrates the impossibility of legislating morality.

1.  Yes the penalties for possession of prohibited gun accessories draws extremely stiff penalties in the US, and probably several other places.

2.  In many places in the US it is legally required to have an exhaust spark suppressor on small gas engines used on lawn motors, string trimmers, chain saws,  all terrain vehicles and anything else with a gasoline engine that is likely to be used in vegetated areas.  Makes perfect sense as wild fires are a huge and growing problem.

3.  When unmounted at least some types of the two devices, one legal and the other illegal, are indistinguishable.  There is nothing other than custom that makes the mounting methods different.

So, in principal at least, it is impossible to tell whether a crime is intended or committed until the device is mounted somewhere.  But I am sure the US law forbids the sale of such devices.  I am sure this line of thinking is behind the ads you see even though these devices probably are terrible fuel filters.  The vendor can get away with it, and and possibly the purchaser until the device is actually used.

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