Posted on 10/02/2017 6:08:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former FBI agent Manny Gomez claimed on MSNBC on Monday that hunters use suppressors so that deer cannot hear the gunshots.
WATCH:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Firearm owners actually use suppressors to prevent hearing loss, and even with a suppressor, a firearm would still be loud enough to spook a deer or other wild game.
“Sportsmen, hunters would make an argument that they need that so that their target, whether it’s a deer, etc. don’t hear the shot,” Gomez claimed, “but numerous other sportsmen have shot from muskets–when the founding fathers started the Second Amendment–up until now successfully killed game animals without the use of a silencer.”
In addition to misrepresenting the reasons hunters and other firearm enthusiasts choose to use suppressors, the former FBI agent claimed that crime will increase if suppressors are made more widely available.
“It gets us more assassinations and a higher crime rate,” Gomez said of efforts to loosen regulations on suppressors. “Silencers were made for one purpose and one purpose alone–that’s nefariously kill people with little evidence and little to no sound.”
Over the past decade, an average of 0.003 percent of suppressors were used in crimes each year. There are currently about 1.3 million suppressors in circulation in the United States, and the level of noise made by suppressed guns has been compared to jackhammers.
This is a government employee, folks....
I have a suppressed CZ 75 B, and as most of you know, it is nowhere near silent. Sounds like a nail gun.
Have to admit, though, that EVERY time I screw that bad boy on, I feel like Bond... James Bond!!!!
Even with a non suppressed bore, they’re down before any sound gets there.
Physics 101.
Was that ‘FBI Agent’ or ‘employee of the FBI’ who delivered mail and emptied the trash?
“This is a government employee, folks....”
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Likely the same one who filled Hillary in on “silencer” use.
>>Was that ‘FBI Agent’ or ‘employee of the FBI’ who delivered mail and emptied the trash?
Hey now, Vince Foster was NOT trash.
Lol!
it never ends . . .
Is he talking about a bow and arrow?
You just can’t make this stuff up. On a positive notw, it makes them look stupid when they say things like this.
Another ex-government whore trying to find life after career as a media consultant.
“Likely the same one who filled Hillary in on “silencer” use”.
Probably this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khoJI2DKRS8
No wonder the FBI can’t find its ass with both hands.
Yup. They are coordinating their same idiotic messages. Lol.
Tool.
This, my friends, is the caliber of American Law Enforcement at the ‘highest’ level these days.
It gets worse. Your local police department’s command staff is most likely infected with Tools like this moron.
“Former FBI agent Manny Gomez claimed on MSNBC on Monday that hunters use suppressors so that deer cannot hear the gunshots.”
Really inspires faith in the FBI ... must have been a minority mandatory quota hire.
Fact is, hunters use suppressors for one reason: deer don't use hearing protection. Shooting them, gutting them, and skinning them out is bad enough, do we really need to deafen them as well? I thought not!
Crossbow - the silent killer, Colonel Crittenden.
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