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.
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.
The author thinks “Hollywood Quiet” is reality.
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.
He was shooting a .308 from what I’ve read. A suppressed.308 still generates about 150 decibels not to mention the supersonic crack that can’t be suppressed. Terrible article full of incomplete information.
I doubt it would have, but it makes for a more dramatic newspaper story, huh?
Sadly the media prefer to push the TV version of a silencer instead of informing the people what they really sound like. Heck I would be encouraged if eve a single court were to demonstrate them to the ATF and the Supremes who won't allow citizens to have them.
Of course that would force the Cop and Military/spy shows to take up the bloody knife to maintain a silent attack mode.