Letting Movies Dictate Your Gun Control Policy
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 10 months ago
The GOP has just risen to a whole new level of crazy. Last week, it introduced the Duncan-Carter Hearing Protection Act of 2017, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Rep. John Carter (R-TX). The bill removes gun silencers from the scope of the National Firearms Act of 1934, and refunds the $200 transfer tax to applicants who purchased them after October 22, 2015.
Yes, we’re talking about gun silencers, or “suppressors” as they are euphemistically known in the industry. You know – those things that assassins snap on the ends of their pistols in action movies to look all slick and cold-blooded. Apparently, the logic is that the world would be a much safer place if silencers were more readily available to the average consumer. Sure.
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The people who should be most outraged by the Hearing Protection Act aren’t gun-hating liberals who knee-jerk at any mention of firearms. They are conservatives and libertarians who value their own credibility in the nationwide debate over Second Amendment rights. It is the responsibility of supporters of Heller to call bullshit on legislation that is nothing more than a marketing plan dressed up as “hearing protection.” Gun owners of integrity have an obligation to remind Congress that earplugs and earmuffs are readily available, and that claims of the necessity of silencers are as stupid as any that big tobacco should manufacture self-lighting cigarettes to prevent kids from burning themselves with lighters.
So I guess suppressors can give you cancer and cause you to become professional assassins. Since suppressors actually do no good protecting your hearing from noise, I guess there must be another reason for them. I’m sure they don’t allow hunters to be aware of their surroundings, like whether they’re near other hunters when they shoot. I’m sure all of those ear muffs don’t interfere with your cheek weld.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when people who know absolutely nothing about guns try to make policy and law about guns. They have nothing to which they can turn except shoot-’em-up movies and assassins. And suppressors are the same thing as tobacco and can give you cancer.
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On January 16, 2017 at 9:07 am, Haywood Jablome said:
Boy I long for the days when authors did some research on a subject before opening their pie holes! I know…it’s a Brave New World!
On January 16, 2017 at 2:15 pm, Jack Crabb said:
The stupid is high in this Elura Nanos twat.
On January 16, 2017 at 6:00 pm, CJ said:
Love the Idea, but simply put…
ATF isn’t going to give up the Money…
but really most Importantly and Truthfull about all this is….The Power.
I’m sure someone will point out some mistake on my part, ATF getting the money or “What Power?”
But sadly… “The Hearing Protection Act of 2017” WILl NOT FLY
I don’t usually gamble unless the odds favor me… but i got $100 on it with a buddy “This Dog Don’t Hunt”
I hope to have to pay off to him
On January 18, 2017 at 11:59 am, Archer said:
I find myself continually informing (or reminding) people that silencers/suppressors DON’T, in fact, take the “BANG!” of a firearm and reduce it to a “pfft”, like in the movies.
Rather, they take a jet turbine engine (~160 dB) and reduce it to an air-raid siren (~120 dB).
Or put another way: You think that neighbor of yours revving his Harley is loud and annoying? A “silenced” gunshot is still louder than that hog.
Despite the name, they don’t “silence” gunfire. They just take it from literally deafening almost down to figuratively deafening (still literally deafening over time).
On January 20, 2017 at 4:37 am, Malaysian Neocon said:
Checked the comments at the #fakenews piece, bet the writer wishes they had silencers/suppressors to stick on THOSE!