I don’t really understand this issue so I am asking an honest question just to know: Why should silencers be unlimited? I’m trying to think of a legal reason for using silencers. Maybe I have watched too many crime shows.
Are you kidding?
Prolonged exposure to gunfire is not only uncomfortable, but damaging to your hearing.
Just as a post script :o)
I’m DYING for my eight year old to become my shootin’ buddy, but she hates, hates, HATES loud noises.
Seriously, this child covers her ears when flushing a public toilet, and if it doesn’t have towel paper she’ll leave the rest room with wet hands.
If suppressors were over-the-counter legal, that child would have the best arsenal in the second grade by to-mmor-ow!
How about for the same reason cars have mufflers? I can target shoot with a silencer and be much less of a disturbance to the neighbors, and I can hunt without scaring every deer in a mile radius. I can shoot with a silencer without using ear protection and do no hearing damage. Shooting is just a lot more comfortable if it’s quieter.
How often do criminals actually care how noisy their shots are? Silencers are not a tool for crime, and they weren’t used by criminals even before the law made them more expensive. I can easily make a silencer (illegally) but criminals never do that because they don’t want one. It’s mainly law-abiding shooters who benefit from the silencer.