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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:21 AM Feb 2018

GOP Even Supports Making Silencers Legal And Available For Guns.

I was listening to Hartmann last week and I believe he had a caller who was making a case for allowing silencers on weapons. His argument was that when you are hunting deer or elk your shot would not spoil another's shot if you had one. He also made the argument that silencers protect the hearing of the shooter or a child you are teaching to shoot.

You almost feel like giving up. No counter argument that Thom Hartmann tried got through.

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GOP Even Supports Making Silencers Legal And Available For Guns. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2018 OP

They've become more common in the sporting goods stores here NickB79 Feb 2018 #1

NRA leadership is evil/inSANE.....take your pick Gabi Hayes Feb 2018 #2

Muted machine guns for everyone Angry Dragon Feb 2018 #5

However, hunting season mornings can be loud and disturbing. greyl Feb 2018 #3

Only a psycho wants these things on the streets samir.g Feb 2018 #4

One wouldn't want to harm anyone's hearing while commiting mass slaughter. longship Feb 2018 #6

They are very common in Europe Abnredleg Feb 2018 #7

I don't like guns, but "silencers" (suppressors) don't make a gun that much quieter. Oneironaut Feb 2018 #8

Silencers are already legal and avaible for guns. You can buy them online. Kaleva Feb 2018 #9

NickB79

(19,271 posts)

1. They've become more common in the sporting goods stores here

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:25 AM

Feb 2018

I can count at least 4 places within 30 min. of me that stock them, and offer to assist in filling out and submitting the necessary paperwork for purchase. They've always been legal, but it takes time and money. The GOP is trying to make it much easier.

Meh, earplugs are a hell of a lot cheaper.

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

2. NRA leadership is evil/inSANE.....take your pick

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:50 AM

Feb 2018

Then there’s that racist prick Scalise

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/top-republican-addressed-racist-group-in-2002-378128963721?playlist=associated

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This article is VERY comprehensive, well worth the time investment

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/10/556578593/the-nra-wasnt-always-against-gun-restrictions

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was seriously wounded when a gunman opened fire in June on a congressional baseball team practice, on Sunday suggested there might be other legislation moving in his chamber that enhanced gun owner rights rather than limiting them in any way.

Scalise, it must be noted, just returned to Congress after months of rehabilitation from his injuries. Scalise, whose NRA report card grade is an A+, said on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that the right to guns is, in essence, without limits.

"Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens," Scalise said. "Don't try to put new laws in place that don't fix these problems. They only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to own a gun."

Asked if he thought gun rights were "unlimited," Scalise said: "It is. It is."

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

5. Muted machine guns for everyone

Reply to Gabi Hayes (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:09 AM

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greyl

(22,990 posts)

3. However, hunting season mornings can be loud and disturbing.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 04:08 AM

Feb 2018

There's really no such thing as a silencer. Muffler at best.

samir.g

(835 posts)

4. Only a psycho wants these things on the streets

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 04:11 AM

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longship

(40,416 posts)

6. One wouldn't want to harm anyone's hearing while commiting mass slaughter.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:23 AM

Feb 2018

Oh noes!!!!

Abnredleg

(670 posts)

7. They are very common in Europe

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 08:38 AM

Feb 2018

Some countries require them while hunting.

Oneironaut

(5,524 posts)

8. I don't like guns, but "silencers" (suppressors) don't make a gun that much quieter.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 09:17 AM

Feb 2018

For example, they only knock some pistols from 160 db to 145 - 130 db. As a general rule, suppressors usually quiet gunshots by ~30 db. They don't cause guns to have that quiet "Pew! Pew!" sound that is in every Hollywood movie - that's just a firearms myth. I would say the hunting argument and hearing argument are technically correct.

Kaleva

(36,351 posts)

9. Silencers are already legal and avaible for guns. You can buy them online.

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Sun Feb 18, 2018, 10:06 AM

Feb 2018

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