Posted on 04/24/2015 5:53:18 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's Senate added language to a bill Thursday that would legalize gun silencers — a surprise development as majority Democrats had shown little interest in changing the state's gun laws and a direct challenge to Gov. Mark Dayton's promise that such a measure would meet his veto pen. The silencer language was added to a grab bag of policy changes that would also mandate external investigations for officer-involved deaths, set ground rules for law enforcement's use of drones and restore voting rights to felons after they're released from prison. The full bill passed 39-22, with most Republicans voting against it. The debate quickly veered into Minnesota's gun laws, with a rural-district Democrat's successful amendment to lift the state's ban on silencers, also called suppressors, along with a handful of other gun law changes. It's an unexpected turn that puts the Senate in line with Republicans who control the House, which earlier this month passed a bill to legalize silencers. And it's a marked turnaround for gun rights advocates, who just two years ago fought off a push to expand background checks and tighten gun access in the wake of the 2013 Connecticut school shooting.
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It’s too bad that the GD MN Senate wasn’t up for election at all last year.
It was even worse that we couldn’t get a first-tier candidate to run against Gov. Dayton or Sen. Franken. We can get the Senate back in 2016, but Dayton will keep vetoing any conservative legislation through 2017 and Franken will keep voting 100% liberal through 2021.
Now let’s get the federal Senate to legalize them - not require $200 tax and strict regulation, but outright legal & unrestricted as any basic safety device should be.
Europe, suppressors are every day affairs. It's just the neighborly thing to do... but then over there ALL gun owners have a big red "X" on their backs.
Not one statewide win at all in MN since T-Paw, even with 2 GOP landslide years. Very disappointing.
They might as well legalize them. They are so easy to make..............
The right size freeze plugs, brass tubing and some lathe time.
That said, my unit had them in Viet Nam; not nearly as quiet as shown on TV.
With the gas valve closed, the AR still breaks the sound barrier.
It does moderate the sound and makes the direction of the source difficult to determine.
You can make a really good one from an old B&S lawnmower muffler.........................
Back in the 1980s, a magazine called FIREPOWER showed how to make a simple silencer using a 2 liter soda pop bottle.
Someone even came up with a coupling to fit it to a handgun. Then the BATF stepped in.
I see Hollywood using silencers on revolvers in movies and TV all the time.
It is to laugh....................
All that gunfire in North Minneapolis is keeping the residents awake.
Good idea to use silencers....
Pawlenty or Coleman should’ve been dragged kicking and screaming to take out the Frankenstein trash.
I remember when I was in grade school, this kid said his older brother had an AK-47 with a silencer and they shot it off in an alley and it just sounded like “a woosh of air”.
When I eventually learned that “silencers” merely reduced rather than nearly eliminated sound (like on TV) I remembered that kid’s story and knew he was full of it.
If you load for a subsonic muzzle velocity and can disable the action, no one will hear you out at your salt lick.
Supersonic and subsonic ammo through a suppressor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icrm9m9bRpY
Note the action noise in this video.
That kid was a slippery Cossack slut.
RE “Silencers”:
Unless you’re using subsonic ammunition, they don’t “silence” anything. They reduce the dBs.
The more apt term is Suppressor, and they’re already legal in most states of the Union; just regulated by your friendly neighborhood F-Troop. Need a 200 buck Tax Stamp on a form, which you need to keep with you when the evil little bastard out and about at the range.
They’re MANDATORY in Finland; they have a pretty good gun culture up there, and because of population density, they like to keep the noise down.
Good for Finland, the world is far too noisy.
you can still get adapters for oil filters...for a $200 fee to Uncle Sham.
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