Determining Your Threaded Barrel

Silencer Shop is here to help! A threaded barrel has external threads at the end of the muzzle, which allows you to utilize various attachments such as a suppressor or other muzzle devices. If your host firearm doesn’t have a threaded barrel, you’ll likely need to purchase a threaded barrel, or you can contact your local gunsmith for professional barrel threading in your area. If your gun already has a threaded barrel just determine the thread size, (covered below), then your host firearm could be all set.

How are Gun Barrels Threaded?

Gun barrels are commonly threaded by using a CNC lathe. A lathe is able to provide greater precision as opposed to threading by hand. While hand threading can be done, modern techniques and machinery have improved concentricity and consistency for threading barrels.