Your Gun Control Laws

[Benton]

(10-03-2017, 12:37 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Depends on the round.  My friend owns an FFL so he can legally possess suppressors (and they are suppressors, not silencers as they do not silence the gun, they suppress the sound) in order to sell them out of state.  You can shoot my AR chambered in 300AAC using subsonic rounds and the round hitting the dirt is louder than the gun firing.  Of course, the 300AAC round was designed with suppression in mind and for sub sonic shooting.  As you pointed out in the other thread, a subsonic .223 round utterly defeats the purpose of the .223 caliber, being a small, but fast projectile.  Honestly, criminals aren't smart or educated enough on firearms to properly use them.  Of the thousand of gun related arrests I've seen I'd say 98%+ of the guns had nothing but FMJ rounds loaded in them.  The reason, they don't know the difference, to them a bullet is a bullet.  It's why these dickheads can get shot ten times and live.  Since the vast majority of gun related homicides are committed by criminals against other criminals I don't think legal suppressors would have any discernible impact on violent crime.

Additionally, how many civilians could hear a loud bang outside and discern a firearm from a firework?  As actually gunshots sound nothing like their movie equivalent I'd say the answer would be close to zero for most locales.

That's why I think you have to apply some general sense with firearms. 

A professional or an experienced enthusiast understands differences in velocity, caliber, etc. The majority are like a Facebook "friend" who posted Saturday "If I hit a bullet w/my lawn mower, will it go off?"