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“Recreational shooters and hunters would like to have silencers because they don’t want to damage their hearing but dislike using ear protection. If the Occupational Safety and Health Administration had been around in the 1930s, gun rights lawyer Stephen Halbrook quipped to The Washington Post, it probably would have mandated their use.”
There are many ranges in Europe where suppressors are mandatory to deal with noise pollution.
I suffered from hearing loss, and can attribute it partially to target shooting without hearing protection as a young man (many years ago). I am ready to move to suppressors when this ridiculous “tax” on them is repealed.
I guess we could go back to screwing a two liter soda pop bottle on the muzzle.