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Deranged Maine shooter Robert Card was denied silencer at gun shop months before massacre
New York Post ^ | Oct. 29, 2023 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 10/31/2023 12:19:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 10/31/2023 12:19:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Good thing he didn’t get the silencer or we wouldn’t have known about the shootings.


2 posted on 10/31/2023 12:21:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We're seeing why the "younger" generations are not patriotic. The big fans of terrorists.)
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Hopefully Rick reported this before the shootings.


3 posted on 10/31/2023 12:22:44 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nickcarraway

How exactly would a suppressor have enabled him to kill more people? As anybody who has been at a range and heard a gun with a suppressor could tell you, you can still distinctly hear them. They are anything but silent.


4 posted on 10/31/2023 12:25:39 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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Something doesn’t add up. Suppressors are an NFA item. There is a lot more paperwork involved than just filling out paperwork at a store.


5 posted on 10/31/2023 12:25:50 PM PDT by Kadric
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But of course he wasn’t on the FBI’s radar, oh no, of course not.


6 posted on 10/31/2023 12:26:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Correct, You can’t buy a silencer from a store. 6 months of paperwork through the Feds first. So this story is bogus.


7 posted on 10/31/2023 12:30:01 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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Pretty sure silencers/suppressors are still NFA covered items, meaning the approval process is painfully long. You can’t just walk in, fill out a form, and leave with your purchase in the same day (or even the same month).


8 posted on 10/31/2023 12:30:12 PM PDT by S. D. Waters (My life is an open book, but it's badly written and I die at the end)
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How exactly would a suppressor have enabled him to kill more people?

It wouldn’t have.

He probably wanted it to spare his already compromised heating. I wonder what effect, if any, the high-powered hearing aid had on the voices in his head.

9 posted on 10/31/2023 12:31:15 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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But of course he wasn’t on the FBI’s radar, oh no, of course not.

Thankfully they got to the house and scooped up the Vegas ticket they bought him and hotel confirmation for Mandalay Bay.

10 posted on 10/31/2023 12:31:41 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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a move that possibly saved countless lives.

What a maroon.

11 posted on 10/31/2023 12:32:40 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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The author thinks “Hollywood Quiet” is reality.


12 posted on 10/31/2023 12:34:10 PM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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Yeah, but that’s how you start. His application was nipped in the bud.


13 posted on 10/31/2023 12:34:30 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: oldasrocks

The only way he could have is if the BATF&E had already approved the Form 4.


14 posted on 10/31/2023 12:35:28 PM PDT by Kadric
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Form 4 Picture. Fingerprint card. And either a trust or a document signed by the local sheriff.

Most folks go with the trust.

Even with all of that in hand, he doesn’t walk out of the store with it.

All paperwork heads to an office in West Virginia for approval.

And that can take a very very long time.


15 posted on 10/31/2023 12:38:15 PM PDT by qaz123
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A witness said he thought the sound was “balloons popping” and were alterted when they looked to the sound.

Whether or not that makes sense, a silencer in a bowling alley would have reduced the attention significantly.


16 posted on 10/31/2023 12:38:25 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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On a side note, I don’t think the guy in the surveillance video is the same as the one they’re posting of Card. But that’s just me.


17 posted on 10/31/2023 12:39:55 PM PDT by qaz123
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But of course he wasn’t on the FBI’s radar, oh no, of course not.

He was on the New York and Maine police radar, we know that. Reports today are that the family warned the cops about him in May.

I don't know why the FBI, who is concerned about parents at school board meetings irate about their daughters getting raped, and Catholics going to Latin Mass, were completely oblivious.

18 posted on 10/31/2023 12:43:14 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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On a side note, I don’t think the guy in the surveillance video is the same as the one they’re posting of Card. But that’s just me.

There is something there that bothers me as well.

19 posted on 10/31/2023 12:44:07 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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The author thinks “Hollywood Quiet” is reality.

That's it exactly. This is another NYC journalist who has never been near guns in his life and who has no idea that the things he's been shown by Hollywood in the movies and on TV are pure crap. He is writing to an audience that fits the exact same description. These people would be shocked to go to a gun range and hear a .308's report even with a suppressor. I can clearly hear it even though my ear protection. A .308 is not exactly a weak or low powered round. The only ones that sound as quiet as Hollywood makes it out to be is subsonic .22 ammo on a .22 with a suppressor.

20 posted on 10/31/2023 12:44:58 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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