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Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
1. There is a ton of hysteria about this
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:00 AM
Oct 2017

But in reality there is no evidence that criminal use of suppressors would rise.

If criminals wanted suppressors now they would have them. You can make a superiors easily now just by treading an oil filter for a car on the end of a barrel- available at any auto parts store with some fitting from the hardware store and you have it for $15.

The fact that criminals are not doing it when it is so easy says they don't have a demand for them.

This won't change the background checks for them, aside from how they are done. Right now they are done on paper in a process established in 1934 before there was an instant check system. This change would just move them to the instant check system used for guns now, and eliminate the $200 tax that wasn't enough to cover the administrative cost of doing it all on paper like they do now.

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