Wetcoaster Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Suppressors have been around for approaching 100 years and with some exceptions aren't nearly as quiet as in the movies. The other thing is, someone that wants one for illegal purposes can just make one themselves, even a potato stuck over the end of a barrel is very effective for one shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electro Rock Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I think a sack of potatoes would have slowed Lanza down quite a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electro Rock Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 That post should win you a lifetime membership in the NRA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 So would have using a real suppressor, they're usually pretty bulky and long, and they typically only take the edge off the sound rather than sound like the Hollywood pfffpp pfffpp version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Thank you comrade! And yours should earn you the title of hero-worker in the revolutionary struggle against personal freedoms! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Dyed in the wool? You're correct though, this notion that not allowing semi-automatic weapons is somehow eliminating a freedom or right is laughable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electro Rock Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Not according to the article that was posted. They also reduce recoil which makes it much easier to fire multiple shots more accurately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Any time you hang more weight off a gun, you reduce recoil, rocket science. Suppressors are legal to own even in the nanny state U.K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Dyed in the wool? You're correct though, this notion that not allowing semi-automatic weapons is somehow eliminating a freedom or right is laughable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electro Rock Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Gun publications are infamous for being little more than thinly veiled advertisements... Anyways, you'll find that suppressors, unless they're extremely bulky or very expensive specialized setups of the kind that only special forces, clandestine services and big league organized crime seems to bother with, they're just not all that quiet anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Gun publications are infamous for being little more than thinly veiled advertisements... Anyways, you'll find that suppressors, unless they're extremely bulky or very expensive specialized setups of the kind that only special forces, clandestine services and big league organized crime seems to bother with, they're just not all that quiet anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electro Rock Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 That has been so because silencers have been closely regulated in the past. Now we have the campaign by the American Silencer Association backed by the NRA seeking to re-brand silencers as "safety devices". It should surprise no one that the NRA has recently thrown its weight behind an industry campaign to deregulate and promote the use of silencers. Under the trade banner of the American Silencer Association, manufacturers have come together with the support of the NRA to rebrand the silencer as a safety device belonging in every all-American gun closet. To nurture this potentially large and untapped market, the ASA last April sponsored the first annual all-silencer gun shoot and trade show in Dallas. America’s silencer makers are each doing their part. SWR Suppressors is asking survivalists to send a picture of their “bugout bag” for a chance to win an assault rifle silencer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Basically anyone can make one, the instructions are all over the net and on printed page. Most of these homemade examples won't be particularily good but the fact is they're not hard to do and haven't triggered a huge crime wave of Hollywood style assassins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Light Racicot Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 For example, in 2011, there was 323 murders committed with a rifle but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Should ban silencers, because it'll be effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Its firearms, not just rifles. And there were over 30000 firearm related deaths in America in 2012, which is about average. Please explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddhas Hand Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 The stupid leading the imbecilic Pushing for an Oklahoma state senate bill authorizing the open carrying of guns (which eventually passed), Sen. Ralph Shortey explained in a March committee hearing that it was an incident from his past that convinced him of the need to carry a gun openly. "I was in oil and gas. I was out on a lease at one time, and I got attacked by a turkey. Wait until you get attacked by a turkey. You will know the fear that a turkey can invoke in a person. And so I beat it with a club. That was all I could do. And (then) I started carrying a gun in my truck after that without a license because I didn't want to get attacked by a mountain lion." [Tulsa World, 3-31-2012] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Silencers are already regulated in the US and there is no rational need for them to become readily available to the general gun nut population. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I guess law never showed you the rational need for a sarcasm detector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Given your posting history it is really hard to distinguish between when you are being serious and when you are being sarcastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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