...the campaign to deregulate silencers is merely the latest attempt by the gun lobby and gun industry, in the wake of declining household gun ownership, to market yet another military-bred product with little concern for its effect on public safety,” reads the paper.
Arguing against cutting back the rules on acquiring a suppressor, the
VPC contends they have been involved in fatal shootings that “graphically illustrate the threat to public safety that making them widely available to the general public would represent.”
However, of the eight instances of recent criminal use illustrated in the report, almost all are cases of criminals using otherwise illegal devices in the first place.
http://www.guns.com/2016/02/16/gun-cont ... ic-safety/
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