I'm very pro gun control, but I'm also pro-fact, and there's a massive shortage of facts on this subject.
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Silencers, as we know them from movies and video games, are not real. They do not exist. There is no device that makes a gun quiet.
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What does exist is the sound suppressor, a device that makes a gun about as quiet as a jackhammer or a rock concert.
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The purpose of this device is to keep the noise level of the gun just barely low enough that it doesn't damage your ears.
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It does this by containing some of the bullet's explosion, which, yes, does reduce muzzle flash.
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The vast majority of guns cannot mount a sound suppressor because they do not have extended, threaded barrels to screw onto.
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Knowing all this, it's hard for me to imagine a benefit to banning sound suppressors beyond sticking it to the GI Joe wannabes.
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(But if that's your thing, you know, knock yourself out.)
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