Opinion By Dan Wos
Author – Good Gun Bad Guy
If the Anti-2ndAmendment crowd can’t earn merit-based policy support, they will create fear-based support.
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Anti-2ndAmendment Radicals in congress want to ban suppressors. But why?
Well, they’d like you to believe that suppressors encourage murderers to go on killing sprees because somehow their guns will magically become silent. They actually try calling them “silencers,” hoping the term will catch on so they can fool the people who aren’t paying attention. Those anti-gun folks who don’t know any better, but know that they fear guns, will fall for anything if they are politically motivated or scared enough.
The truth is, criminals don’t use suppressors because they’re heavy, they make firearms much harder to hide and they don’t quiet a gun nearly enough to justify their use in a crime, but that doesn’t stop the anti-gun crowd from pushing the fake narrative about suppressors. Try telling an Anti-Gunner that suppressors are never used in mass killings and they will rebut with the one case in which a suppressor was found. They are trained to have the Virginia Beach killing ready-to-go, because it is the only one they know of where a suppressor was found at the scene.
Hardly justification to ban the item, but remember, Anti-Gunners don’t care about saving lives as much as they want to suppress YOU and they will take advantage of any opportunity that presents itself.
The anti-gun crowd will act as though, had it not been for the suppressor, the killing would not have occurred. They will push the narrative that, if suppressors are banned, lives will be saved. I would argue that suppressors save lives, because if one’s hearing is damaged, they may be a risk when driving or engaging in other activities that require acute auditory capability.
So what do suppressors do? They help protect the hearing of gun-owners.
They reduce noise pollution (often important when hunting) and they can make firearms training more comfortable. Anti-Gunners don’t care about your hearing, they hate the idea of hunting and they don’t want you to be more proficient with your firearms, so none of these things matter to them.
Take an AR-15 for example, (one of the most commonly owned rifles in America.) Unsuppressed, the AR-15 produces about 165 decibels. A suppressed AR-15 will produce about 132 decibels. That’s just below the CDC occupational hazard limit of 140 decibels but still louder than a Ted Nugent concert. A suppressed rifle is also louder than a siren and thunder, which both come in around 120 decibels.
So why do the dishonest Gun-Grabbers lie to you? Well, they’re not trying to fool gun-owners because we won’t buy their nonsense for a minute. They want to fool those who don’t know any better. Gun Grabbers want to scare people into supporting their policies that further restrict the rights of their own fellow citizens. What better way to push laws through, than to scare people and make them believe that killers are out there, roaming through neighborhoods, massacring people with suppressors and no one can even hear it happening?
Many Anti-Gunners are waking up to the lies of the anti-gun left. They are starting to realize that they’ve been fooled by the politicians they once trusted. Some are beginning to understand that if their political-puppet-masters will mislead them on this topic, it is quite possible that they have been and will be misled on many others. But this doesn’t stop the Anti-2ndAmendment Radicals and their lobbying groups from constantly attacking the right to keep and bear. \
So although they hope to disarm law-abiding citizens, by implementing laws that violate your rights, they forget, that just like our guns, real Americans won’t be silenced.
About Dan Wos, Author – Good Gun Bad Guy
Dan Wos is an American entrepreneur, author, musician, and NRA member. He is the founder and President of House Detective Inc., a home inspection and appraisal company serving many markets across the United States. He is also an active real estate investor.
The term “silencer” is not only an acceptable term for suppressors it is also a ratified legal term. You can fill out all of your forms (2,3,4,5) with the term silencer. The company who first developed the suppressor called them silencers. The picture you have above has SILENCER Co suppressors in it. Saying Silencer is a term developed by the left just makes you sound like an ignorant piece of garbage and it is ignorant garbage like that which gives the left ground to stand on. Take this article down before we all get bundled in with your retardation.
“They actually try calling them “silencers,” hoping the term will catch on so they can fool the people who aren’t paying attention. Those anti-gun folks who don’t know any better, but know that they fear guns, will fall for anything if they are politically motivated or scared enough.” Newsflash… the term “silencer” has already “caught on” because that is what the man who invented and patented the things more than a century ago called them. Hiram Percy Maxim patented the “silent firearm,” and the devices are called “silencers” in our federal laws. So no, they do not actually “silence” the… Read more »
if suppressors are bad why don’t we run our cars without a muffler? same principle, different product. leftist want to blame something instead of someone. they want to virtue signal their concern for people until they have opinions different than theirs. where is the diversity leftists always call for? everyone should share this video on their social media platforms to counter the lame stream media and leftocrats. many state allow hunting with suppressors, what will happen to all the hunters who use suppressors when they ban them? nothing good about a leftists except as an example of how not to… Read more »
The only reason why suppressor were included in the illegal 1934 gun control act was because some clown with the fish and game department had a ‘buddy’ who was a senator, and told him to include suppressor in the bill as that would stop all poaching forever! Yeah, right. Has all poaching stopped? By it self, a suppressor is a round piece of steel with rivits in it, it can’t do anything, can’t shoot a pistol, nothing. But the gun banning cults and democrats politicians scare the general public into thinking they are somehow “dangerous”. In Europe, with all their… Read more »
What does one expect from politicians and bureaucrats who get their facts from Hollywood? These elected and appointed idiots have no idea how things work and yet they make all of their decisions as if they were experts. Term limits are the only solution to rid society of corruption, dishonesty, ignorance and career politicians.
The NRA and every other pro gun group needs to remind Trump what got him elected in the first place and put more pressure on him to be more Pro 2A! Quit talking about banning or confiscating anything we have a God given right to have! It’s not like we have a choice in who to vote for other than Trump since the Democommies ALL want to take ALL our guns and accessories! Somebody needs to take Trump to the range for a day so he can have some fun and see things our way! Let’s all stick together and… Read more »
I don’t know if suppressors will totally become totally illegal, but they will never be free from tax and registration.. The government Will Never Surrender a $200 tax nor the right to come kick your door in at 3 in the morning to check and see if you have the suppressor there.. Anyone that pays that tax, and filled out that paperwork, subjects themselves to a search of their residence (for the suppressor).. The search can be anytime the ATF deems fit… and the suppressor better be there under your control.. if I ever choose to have a suppressor the… Read more »
After bumpstocks and Trump’s due process comment he follows it with a comment to take suppressor down the same road as he did bumpstocks . I am getting the feeling Trump leans more to the left than the right on our second amendment . Trump will show his true colors on this issue , time for him to decide if he is a leftist communist or a true American .
I am 100% pro suppressor. I think we should be able to buy them in Walmart sporting goods. However, we should be honest and not be part of the propaganda machine. They are called silencers. Some manufacturers have silencer I their name. The ATF calls them silencers. Now let’s make them easy to obtain for everyone.
Dan, you’re a great American!