There is also a home defense case to be made for suppressors.
You are sitting in your bedroom one night reading when you hear noises coming from your front room. Nobody you know should be there; you grab your shotgun or major caliber pistol and go check out what’s going on. You go down the stairs, down the hall and find signs that uninvited guests are around; broken window, muddy trainer prints, bowled-over furniture. Before you can pull back to a more defensible room and call the police, you see an assailant coming at you from your left. You spin, level your weapon and fire.
Your weapon is unsuppressed. You didn’t put on hearing protection because you did actually need to hear if there were unwanted visitors and where they were. You had to fire in self defense - but now you’ve been at least partially deafened by firing your arm in close quarters.
You can’t hear the partner of the guy you just put down, who slips up behind you and cuts your throat.
A suppressor will quieten down the weapon so you will be able to hear Thug Number Two. Scenarios like this is why the US Marine Corps is looking into making all their weapons suppressed for house to house fighting.
Even more good reason. Looks like you’ve convinced me here. As I said, though, Trump having a personal dislike of silencers is NOT the same thing as voicing a desire to ban them. Even my mom’s wary of guns, yet she wouldn’t dream of taking guns away.