A bill referred to by some as the Hearing Protection Act
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No text available yet. It will bring the USA more in line with those other countries which allow unlicensed civilians to use silencers.
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CNN's video initially emphasizes silencer use by movie assassins instead of showing use by real shooters. They repeat (un-named) gun control advocates claims that silencers are about militarizing guns and not about hearing. Too bad they let this claim go unchallenged instead of mentioning that silencers were originally developed by a civilian for civilians and only much later adopted for use by the military.
They also repeat the claim that silencers will allow mass shooters to kill stealthily. Seeing as how silencers (registered or not) have been readily available for a long time, the crack of a supersonic bullet is anything but stealthy and mass shooters have never demonstrated any willingness to use them, I don't think it will be a problem.
It was nice of them to show how loud some guns are when suppressed. But most people will not understand just how poorly the noise of any firearm is reproduced by a video recorder and computer or TV speakers.
Ladd Everett the director of One Pulse for America has his own opinion (some of which are familiar to those here) about silencer use. He says that people should be able to hear hunters discharging their firearms so they can move away if needed; implying that silencers make gun noiseless. Yes, he sounds that stupid.
Ranb
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To provide that silencers be treated the same as long guns |
http://ift.tt/2jl9szf
CNN's video initially emphasizes silencer use by movie assassins instead of showing use by real shooters. They repeat (un-named) gun control advocates claims that silencers are about militarizing guns and not about hearing. Too bad they let this claim go unchallenged instead of mentioning that silencers were originally developed by a civilian for civilians and only much later adopted for use by the military.
They also repeat the claim that silencers will allow mass shooters to kill stealthily. Seeing as how silencers (registered or not) have been readily available for a long time, the crack of a supersonic bullet is anything but stealthy and mass shooters have never demonstrated any willingness to use them, I don't think it will be a problem.
It was nice of them to show how loud some guns are when suppressed. But most people will not understand just how poorly the noise of any firearm is reproduced by a video recorder and computer or TV speakers.
Ladd Everett the director of One Pulse for America has his own opinion (some of which are familiar to those here) about silencer use. He says that people should be able to hear hunters discharging their firearms so they can move away if needed; implying that silencers make gun noiseless. Yes, he sounds that stupid.
Ranb
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