House GOP-led hearing on deregulation of gun silencers cancelled aftershooting
After the shooting at a Congressional baseball practice Wednesday morning, the House cancelled a scheduled hearing in which a National Rifle Association leader was to push for the deregulation of gun silencers.
The GOP-sponsored bill up for debate in the House Natural Resources Committee, the Sportsmen Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act (SHARE Act), would have removed gun silencers from the list of items regulated by the 1934 National Firearms Act.
Silencers — also referred to as suppressors by the gun lobby — reduce the noise emitted from firearms. Under current law, they are regulated as strictly as machine guns and short-barreled rifles, but the gun lobby claims that these regulations are costly and unnecessary. They argue it’s more important to protect law-abiding gun owners against potential hearing loss.
Opponents, meanwhile, claim that deregulation would lead to more gun violence.
https://thinkprogress.org/gun-silencer-shooting-fb5bd4a818bd
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A suppressor on a rifle typically drops the level from ~160db to ~120db -- still louder than a rock concert.
Nobody would have missed the sound of a rifle with a suppressor.
.. of a round being fired. They don't want to be seen.
At the distances that snipers fire at, the shot typically arrives seconds before *any* sound does.
120db wouldn't seem far away to anybody nearby.
