We’re taking a look back through our archives, and it looks like the debate over banning suppressors last took place in 2017. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted, “When someone gets shot by a gun with a silencer, it’s quiet. Witnesses might not hear. Police will be less likely to track down the shooter.” Hillary Clinton and Barbra Streisand wanted to know how many more would have died in the Las Vegas mass shooting if the shooter had been using a silencer.
Now Sen. Dianne Feinstein is back on the gun suppressor beat. She, Senator Bob Menendez, and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman reintroduced on Thursday the Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act, “federal gun safety legislation to ban the importation, sale, manufacturing, transfer and possession of gun silencers or suppressors.”
Feinstein and crew agree with Gillibrand that silencers hide the sound of gunfire from potential victims as well as law enforcement.
Gun silencers and suppressors are dangerous and don’t belong in our communities. They hide the sound of gunfire from potential victims and law enforcement. Removing them will save lives.https://t.co/eU5p1a8ZmW
— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) April 15, 2021
Suppressors bring the sound of gunfire down to the nice, calming decibel level of a jackhammer. Many responsible gun owners want them because they provide additional protection for their eardrums, and decrease shock/chaos when firing indoors during life-or-death situations.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) April 15, 2021
The Virginia Beach shooter used suppressors, yet people on the third floor still immediately knew it was gunfire. Why? Because gunfire is very, very loud. There's no "hiding" it.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) April 15, 2021
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Yet another @TheDemocrats liar altering facts @TwitterSupport
— Tom Martino (@tom_martino1) April 15, 2021
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Silencers don't exist, suppressors already need to be registered with an ATF tax stamp and background check, and individuals using suppressors without such a tax stamp have broken a law and would acquire or make a suppressor regardless of the legality anyway.
— オカピMACHINEGUN (@fuffyfaf) April 15, 2021
If you hate guns so damn much then actually educate yourself about them or forbid your bodyguards from using them.
— オカピMACHINEGUN (@fuffyfaf) April 15, 2021
They don't hide any sound. That's only in the movies. Still sounds like a gunshot.
— Roger Draego (@Draego_6) April 15, 2021
If you knew anything about guns you'd know that suppressors arent that silent, and that silencers and suppressors are the same thing.
Good for sound cancelation on the far scale, but not on the local. You'd still hear the shot.
— Daladari the Unbreakable (@DaladariXIII) April 15, 2021
This is what you get when you have politicians that think movies are reality.
Suppressed guns are still REALLY loud. But take the sound to an ear-damaging level to something unpleasantly loud, but not as dangerous for hearing.
— Myrddraal (@HandOfTheDark) April 15, 2021
If only they were suppressors of ignorance & disinformation spread by politicians…
— Ryan Petty (@rpetty) April 15, 2021
Can you give even one example of a shooter successfully evading police because of a suppressor?
Can you give even one example of a murderer who wouldn't have murdered w/o a suppressor?
Can you give even one example of a murder with a suppressor? Very rare.
— Matt Christiansen (@MLChristiansen) April 15, 2021
The use of suppressors in crime is so vanishingly rare that the ATF has on at least one occasion suggested removing them from the NFA. They were only added in the 1934 NFA due to livestock owners having a fear of poachers taking their livestock.
— BrainletTheatre (@Hambrabai) April 15, 2021
Suppressors don't hide sound, they reduce the average 140-175dB level by 40dB or so, making it as quiet as a chainsaw. Stop lying to people with this garbage. https://t.co/QpPP25z3HJ
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 15, 2021
People who were driven around by CCP spies for 30 years don’t get to tell us what firearms or firearm accessories we can or cannot possess.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 15, 2021
I feel like the people who help decide our laws should have to at least take a basic class and pass the final exam on the subject matter they are speaking and deciding on. The level of ignorance (my optimism is showing) among our Congress is so extremely disappointing.
— Alisa S. (@a_suzette_e) April 15, 2021
As someone who shot a gun for the first time over the weekend I can confirm that even with a suppressor, gun still go bang.
— Nicola (@smiiicks) April 15, 2021
Or about as loud as @ericswalwell s farts on TV
— BSway (@BSuever) April 15, 2021
This is what happens when everything you know about guns you learned from John Wick.
— OIC Clearly (@seethrusaint) April 15, 2021
Exactly
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 15, 2021
Removing the criminals in all of our U.S. cities that average hundreds of homicides a year will save lives. Interesting the cities and states with the strictest gun laws have the highest rate of murders.
— ?ғᴍᴄ (@14tradlife) April 15, 2021
If they can’t just take your guns, they’ll take each piece that makes up the gun one by one: bump stocks, suppressors, magazines …
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‘Like a chair scraping on the floor’ is not what a suppressor sounds like to Stephen Gutowski https://t.co/ZdCzvGeljL
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 2, 2019
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