Silencers: The NRA’s latest big lie

Salon ^ | Dec 30, 2012 | Alexander Zaitchik

[umgud]

The gov’t requires me to use mufflers on all my vehicles. I can go to any auto parts store and buy them without any restrictions.

[Chainmail]

Gotta Have one!

[advertising guy]

hense my cliche’

our MSM and kids are educated at The University of IKEA

[353FMG]

Why use subsonic ammo and a silencer (suppessor)?

Isn’t it like belt and suspenders?

[freekitty]

Hear, Hear.

[Yo-Yo]

Alex at Salon will wet his panties when he finds out that the Slide Fire stock exists...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvLt8-Wf7r0

[cableguymn]

Why give um a panic button and nothing else?

Give um a gun so they can go shot the SOB before he kills more.

Then they can pull the fire alarm (aka panic button) or push a panic button.

[wac3rd]

Alexander Zaitchik is an American freelance journalist who has written for The Nation, Salon, The New Republic, The New York Observer, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The International Herald Tribune, Wired, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Believer. He has been on staff of the New York Press, served as an investigative reporting fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, and founded the online magazine Freezerbox (1998 - 2008). Zaitchik has also held editorial roles at the Prague Pill and the Russian tabloid The eXile.

His book, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, was published by Wiley & Sons in June 2010.[1]

He is another card-carrying Lefty, no surprise, he supports Einsteins like Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Feinstein to have armed guards and for us to “trust” them.

[Red in Blue PA]

It's interesting that in European countries where firearms ownership is more rigorously controlled, there is no irrational fear of "silencers". In some areas, you must have them in order to hunt or shoot on a rifle/pistol range.

Amazing, isn't it? Goes to show we need to take back areas we lost.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Somewhere in all my info I have an article on how to make a silencer out of a two liter soda pop bottle. For a while, there was a piece sold you could clamp on your firearm to accept a soda bottle.

[Real Cynic No More]

When that muffled gun begins banging away children's lives, the call is made and help is on the way.

Yeah, after about 15 minutes and 20 or so dead kids.

[TigersEye]

Silencers are legal in France. What more needs to be said?

[BlessingsofLiberty]

“Alexander Zaitchik is a journalist living in Brooklyn.”

Clueless in NYC...

[okie01]

Salon provides us with a perfect demonstration of how we no longer have any common ground with these people.

There are no grounds for a rational, fact-based discussion with people like this. They don't want a discussion, much less a debate -- they'd lose the argument. Instead, they want to demean, ridicule and belittle their opponents.

Moreover, nine times out of ten they don't have any idea what it is they're talking about.

Spoiled children...

[facedown]

Just more lies from the dirtbags at Salon.

[Michigan Bowhunter]

The picture of the Walther P22 with the subsonic ammo is bogus........subsonic Rem 22 shorts do not cycle in that gun.......personal experience.

[Nachoman]

Why use subsonic ammo and a silencer (suppessor)?

Isn’t it like belt and suspenders?

No. The suppressor quiets the muzzle blast from the gun. Subsonic ammo doesn't create the sonic "crack" sound of supersonic ammo.

[smokingfrog]

... nor should you.

These people are certifiably paranoid.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It must be awful for the author to go through life afraid of everything.

[smokingfrog]

How many people have you assassinated lately?

Admit it, the urge is irresistible when you're holding that in your hand. /s