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19. There are already hundreds of thousands of suppressors in civilian hands now

Tue Mar 14, 2017, 07:38 PM

Mar 2017

A $200 tax stamp and 9 months waiting for your paperwork to clear is hardly an obstacle to owning one as it is. Hell, the local gun shop near my mother-in-law's place in St. Paul, MN, has an entire display case of them, and will give you step-by-step aid in filling out the paperwork. It's tempting to purchase one, but I have better uses for my money (and it's illegal to hunt with a suppressor-fitted gun anyway, so it'd be nothing but a paper-puncher).

So, on one hand I don't see the need to make them easier to purchase, since it's already fairly straightforward to do so. You just need patience.

On the OTHER hand, with suppressors being legal for civilians to own for decades, and a fair number of them being in use daily, I can't recall any crimes committed by someone with a suppressor-equipped gun. I doubt easier access to them will suddenly cause a surge in suppressed-firearm crime.

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Best wishes to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Hope good sense and morality will prevail. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2017 #16

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There are already hundreds of thousands of suppressors in civilian hands now NickB79 Mar 2017 #19

So we have laws against them discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 #21

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