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Gun industry seeks eased restrictions on purchasing silencers
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They are the stuff of legend, wielded by hit men and by James Bond. For decades, buying a silencer for a firearm has been as difficult as buying a machine gun, requiring a background check that can take close to a year.
Now, emboldened by the election of Donald Trump as president, the industry has renewed a push in Congress to ease those restrictions, arguing that it'll help preserve the hearing of gun users.
"We look at this as a Second Amendment issue. We look at it as a health issue," said Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America. "The decibel level of a fired gun, even the lowly .22-caliber, can cause hearing damage." |
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kangpc
(2/16/2017)
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“He who controls the language controls the masses”. – Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals
We must stop accepting, or even using, the misleading terminology of our opponents.
Stop using the inaccurate term "silencer." Instead use only the more descriptive "muffler." In form and function it is the same as the noise abating device found on cars and lawn mowers.
As we learned when we, and the politicians, accepted the meaningless term "assault weapon," Saul Alinsky, at least in this instance, is correct. |
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