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Remember, Congress never even discussed why silencers were included in the NFA during the NFA hearings.
This man never sold a silencer.
One of his employees, an IT specialist, had numerous firearms before working for DM, that were not in congruence with the NFA.
ATF told that employee that if he rolled over on the owner by making false statements, he would have his charges reduced.
They essentially told the IT guy to claim that all of the non-silencers/solvent traps were actually silencers to support their case against Diversified Machine.
It has been fine for people to Form 1 their own silencers since 1934 (which is an unconstitutional set of anti-Bill of Rights rulings made in the wake of Prohibition gangs).
Diversified Machine just made the process easier for people.
Combined with States that passed Firearms Freedom laws, allowing citizens to exercise their rights outside of the unconstitutional ATF system, this made ATF thugs antsy, with SACs and ASACs chewing at the bit to go after non-violent citizens who just want to protect their hearing and exercise their rights without paying the unconstitutional $200 conformity tax.
The buyers still have to manufacture the solvent traps into functioning suppressors.
None of these facts matter to ATF, and they threw the book at the owner of Diversified Machine to set an example.
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