Over the last few months, folks have been selling so-called “solvent trap adapters” on the internet. They’re threaded dongles that allow the user to attach a commercial oil filter to the barrel of a gun. They’re all over Amazon and eBay.
The folks marketing them claim they’re for cleaning. The rest of us know they’re a way of making improvised silencers. They’re really only solvent traps if you say the phrase while making those air quotes with your fingers.
Sure, they can certainly be used to catch errant patches and other funk while cleaning, but so can a Ziploc bag and rubber bands. The device ceases to be a solvent trap and becomes a silencer once the first round is fired through it. Which is exactly what folks are going to do.
One of the companies marketing this stuff claims that the adapter is the serialized, registered part. Wrong. It’s the oil filter itself. Continued...