Posted on 11/28/2011 5:17:43 PM PST by marktwain
Take the muffler off your car-illegal.
Put a muffler on your gun-illegal.
Don’t ya just love government?
Muffler on lawn-mower shows that person IS VERY BAD!
He wishes you HARM.
I know if I had to fire my AR-15 inside my home in self defense that I would suffer severe hearing damage. My ears still ring after range time with plugs and Muffs. No idea how our soldiers manage that.
Suppressors get people thinking James Bond silent. Nothing could be further from the truth. Firearms are still plenty loud with them and hearing protection is still recommended.
Outside of the unconstitutional aspect of the bureaucratic hurdles to ownership the argument could easily framed as a public health issue in my view.
If you did try it you’d be committing a Federal felony and risk 5 years in prison and a very hefty fine.
Adrenaline burst during fight or flight takes care of that for you, the gun fire can sometimes be reduced to a pop noise or nothing at all.
Can have the same effect when out hunting.
Not that I’m disagreeing with that.....
But how did you get the moniker, “Deaf?”
Silence is golden but, duck tape is silver.
only if one didn't bother to engage oneself in some rather basic logic
Their sales are obviously not all gun-related. If they were, they're getting an average of $33,333 at wholesale per gun. My guess is that this guy is making up a lot of the article out of thin air.
Out at my place in SW Nebraska and listening to a Kansas radio station when an ad came on from a gun store announcing that it is the silencer sales leader for Kansas. I had a tear in my eye, both from joy and the fact that I’m stuck in the People’s Republic of Illinois.
I LOVE my silencer! Got it fitted for a cz-75b, 9mm. Took 4.5 months to get the silencer, but almost one whole year to get the threaded barrrel. It’s a blast, though. Well, maybe not a “blast”!
Something else to note about sound suppressors, the correct term for “silencers”.
The US leads the rest of the world by far on sound suppressor technology. No other nation can compete with the rate of technological advancement that has been achieved here in the US. A sound suppressor designed and marketed today will be outdated within six months. That isn’t to say that it doesn’t work, but the market demand for high quality and advancements such as smaller sizes, better sound reduction, etc. have made the suppressor industry one of the most innovative in this nation.
Sadly, we are stagnant when it comes to full auto and select fire weapons due to the lack of foresight and literal treasonous intent of those that passed the Hughes Amendment in 1986. We are now quite a bit behind the rest of the world in select fire small arms technology. It is now not a political issue, it’s a matter of national security.
Repeal the Hughes Amendment before we end up looking down the the barrels of our enemies guns that make our M16 look like a cap lock rifle.
Thanks for the info on the protective effect of andrenolin DS. I wouldn’t hesitate to shoot of course but is always been in the back of my mind when thinking things through that the noise generated is going to be intense and dangerous.
***I am still wanting to try out the plastic pop bottle I saw on the Borne Indentity. *****
I have in my articles from gun magazines a test of using a soda bottle. It actually works for a dozen or so rounds. Back in the 1980s there was a device made to attach a soda bottle to a firearm. The devise cost way less than the BATF tax of $200.00 you were required to pay.
Suppressors are very common in the UK. Completely legal and nearly demanded so as to keep the countryside serene.
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