National ASA OPPOSES HEAR ACT – NATIONWIDE BAN ON SUPPRESSORS

[The Heretic]

ASA OPPOSES HEAR ACT - NATIONWIDE BAN ON SUPPRESSORS - American Suppressor Association

On Monday, February 6th, ASA President Knox Williams testified in the New Mexico Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee in opposition to Senate Bill 171. . Immediately following Knox’s testimony, Sen. Soules offered an amendment to delete the provision banning suppressors. The amendment was...

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[Nosferatu]

The Bill would ban all current and future suppressor ownership and authorize a 90-day "buyback" period in which current owners would need to turn in their legally owned suppressors or face criminal charges.

Registration FTW.

 

[CamoDeafie]

"Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12)"

Of Course.. New Jersey. The same Party and the same State that had someone insert the much-hated Hughes Amendment into the 1986 Firearms Owners Protection Act. among other things...edit it seems particular that New Jersey has a thing for hating guns and 2nd Amendment in general.

 

[moose]

You should have to come up with a reason not to have a suppressor on a firearm, they should come stock with one.

 

[Diamondback]

"Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12)"

Of Course.. New Jersey. The same Party and the same State that had someone insert the much-hated Hughes Amendment into the 1986 Firearms Owners Protection Act. among other things...edit it seems particular that New Jersey has a thing for hating guns and 2nd Amendment in general.

There's a reason we all it "Nazi Jermany"...

 

[RobMa]

If we let this slide it's only a matter of time before it becomes guns that they demand we "let them"
buy back..

 

[MichaelH]

You all may have noticed in some of my past posts that I'm pretty liberal and generally think the banners are misguided in pursuit of good intentions, meaning they really want to stop gun deaths of innocents not disarm you to be able to march you off to camps. Despite their good intentions their lack of knowledge and general personal antipathy to firearms causes them to propose some pretty stupid laws to try to achieve that end, without even discussing constitutionality. That said, this legislation is supremely stupid, even if suppressors don't fall under the 2A, this seems like a solution in search of a problem. As far as I know there has never been a mass shooting where the shooter used a suppressor (though I'd imagine the guy in Vegas may have owned one). Criminals don't buy them because they cost too much and have to be registered. They aren't really even quiet enough to conceal a crime. Seems to me that all suppressors do is protect firearms enthusiasts hearing. WTF?

 

[CamoDeafie]

It goes all the way back to how silencers/suppressors were characterized in media and in newspapers. Basically "only assassins and spies need silencers/suppressors; Honorable gentlemen and hunters do not need them".

Edit. Much the exact same kind of sentiment around AR15s and standard mags.. "only mass killers, soldiers, Cops need these, hunters and citizens do not need these, they'll be fine with less than 10rd capacity and no semiautomatic weapons are needed for honorable, legal hunting of game"

 

[Nosferatu]

It goes all the way back to how silencers/suppressors were characterized in media and in newspapers. Basically "only assassins and spies need silencers/suppressors; Honorable gentlemen and hunters do not need them".

Yeah, which is hilarious because several European countries REQUIRE hunters to use a suppressor.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Yeah, which is hilarious because several European countries REQUIRE hunters to use a suppressor.

But as have been pointed out,.America is not Europe please don't let that thing become a "compromise" point (yeah, mandatory registration and ban of semiautomatic rifles to get silencers/suppressors off NFA)