Suppressors are a gun safety item you’d think the left would mandate. Instead, they want guns to be damaging to hearing by making it difficult and invasive to get them. “They criminalize suppressors and then try to ban shooting ranges because guns are too loud.” - John Ross, Unintended Consequences.
Suppressors ought to cost about $50 but because of all the hassle and paperwork involved they cost $400 plus $200 tax.
In some countries, suppressors are required on hunting rifles. Not here.
WHAT? I can’t hear you, speak up.
Suppressors are just another instance of people ‘knowing’ what they know about guns from what they see in movies. The 100yd shots with a snubnose to shoot the bad guy’s gun out of his hand. The blast from a .45 that knocks the bad guy flying back 10 feet and out a 20 storey window. The shots through the shoulder girdle that never hit anything structural. The revolver with a 30 round cylinder. The shotgun that requires an infinite number of racks and yet never seems to eject. The hammer that never seems to stay cocked. And the silencer that makes a Barrett .50 just go ‘pfft’.
I have a game that I inflict on my family: who can find the most things wrong in this Hollywood gun scene? It gets tedious and they react with “aw, not again” but they are really good at spotting the errors in handling and physics. Would that our ‘betters’ were 1/10th as good.
I wonder if the NSA has opened a file on you because of that chat?