easyt65
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"Kirsten Gillibrand: How will the police solve gun crimes if people are allowed to use silencers?"
"How can we end violence in our communities if criminals can get easy access to equipment that'd make it hard for police to solve gun crimes?
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) March 14, 2017"
"Oddly enough, criminals haven’t yet deduced the allegedly awesome crime-evading powers of the silencer. A Chicago PD spokesman told Steve Chapman earlier this year that they rarely recover silencers in gun crimes; an ATF study found that, of 1.3 million silencers in use in the United States, an average of … 44 are used in the commission of crimes annually. Why would America’s felons leave a tool like this at home when, per Gillibrand, it could mean the difference between capture and escape? Are they idiots?
No, Gillibrand’s the idiot. The man to read on this subject is Sean Davis, who tackled it:
Go figure that criminals wouldn’t show much interest in a gun accessory that makes the weapon heavier and harder to conceal for the sake of reducing the sound of their gunshots from “blow your eardrums out” loud to merely traumatically loud. In fact, notes Davis, because 90 percent of the guns used in murders in the U.S. have non-threaded barrels, the murderer couldn’t have used a suppressor even if he wanted to. A suppressor is a sportsman’s device, designed to minimize the health risk to someone who shoots frequently at a range or while hunting with no interest in concealing his weapon. It’s not a criminal’s device, for exactly the opposite reason that Gillibrand gave: It’s not “quiet.”"
Also noteworthy, there is are relatively 'new' scientific break-throughs Police can now use to solve: 'Forensics', Cameras, eye-witnesses. etc...
;p
Silly snowflakes....
Kirsten Gillibrand: How will the police solve gun crimes if people are allowed to use silencers? - Hot Air
"How can we end violence in our communities if criminals can get easy access to equipment that'd make it hard for police to solve gun crimes?
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) March 14, 2017"
"Oddly enough, criminals haven’t yet deduced the allegedly awesome crime-evading powers of the silencer. A Chicago PD spokesman told Steve Chapman earlier this year that they rarely recover silencers in gun crimes; an ATF study found that, of 1.3 million silencers in use in the United States, an average of … 44 are used in the commission of crimes annually. Why would America’s felons leave a tool like this at home when, per Gillibrand, it could mean the difference between capture and escape? Are they idiots?
No, Gillibrand’s the idiot. The man to read on this subject is Sean Davis, who tackled it:
Go figure that criminals wouldn’t show much interest in a gun accessory that makes the weapon heavier and harder to conceal for the sake of reducing the sound of their gunshots from “blow your eardrums out” loud to merely traumatically loud. In fact, notes Davis, because 90 percent of the guns used in murders in the U.S. have non-threaded barrels, the murderer couldn’t have used a suppressor even if he wanted to. A suppressor is a sportsman’s device, designed to minimize the health risk to someone who shoots frequently at a range or while hunting with no interest in concealing his weapon. It’s not a criminal’s device, for exactly the opposite reason that Gillibrand gave: It’s not “quiet.”"
Also noteworthy, there is are relatively 'new' scientific break-throughs Police can now use to solve: 'Forensics', Cameras, eye-witnesses. etc...
;p
Silly snowflakes....
Kirsten Gillibrand: How will the police solve gun crimes if people are allowed to use silencers? - Hot Air
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