Don’t do that. Don’t be yet another “progressive political” movement that goes down the gun control warpath.
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”
You can have common sense gun control means without going full Australia.
Lol Australia? Look at how many mass shootings Australia has vs you gun retards. Glad I can send my kids to school without fear of them being shot. Fucking gun nut spastic Americans, honestly. At least my kids won't get shot for no reason. Hurr durr I need a killing machine /s. Absolutely ridiculous logic. Do you even know what the word amendment means? Fuck me, why are you not allowed to build a nuke?
Yeah, fully aware that this is a US instance... please ratify my point and click the down arrow.
The people downvoting you might not be the gun fetishist you imagine, they might just not like the language you use.
fully aware that this is a US instance
It's not, it was created in the Netherlands.
you gun retards
spastic
We stopped saying "retard" a couple of decades ago, and depending on where you are in the world, "spastic" also isn't used anymore.
Yeah man, fuck our lack of school shootings and our radically reduced gun-related violence! We're the worst!
Not that I'm saying that would work in America - Australia has safer (though not perfect) law enforcement.
If I were American, I'd probably also fiercely advocate to keep my guns, too. When your own country can't guarantee safety, you have to.
My friend, no one was shittalking Australia.
Go get a half dozen dimmies and take a smoko.
Marx wrote this in 1850. He was talking about social and political issues of 1850, and also he was talking about single shot muskets. He didn't have to consider what the implications of shootouts with police armed with tanks will be, in part because tanks didn't exist.
You're doing the same textualism rightoids are doing, and it's wrong and bad from any side.
Allowing deep south bumpkins buying supressed machine guns and bringing them to schools is not how you do progressive politics.
Suppressors shouldn't be illegal, and they shouldn't require special regulation.
Why? They are tools designed to make deadly weapons deadlier, they absolutely should be regulated.
As a card carrying member of the Socialist Rifle Association, and someone in their 50's I can tell you that they serve a legitimate purpose. While suppressors don't actually make firearms 'silent', they do reduce the sound by a significant amount. Traditional Ear Protection helps, but doesn't eliminate the noise entirely. It also does nothing if you happen to take your earpro out for any reason and someone else shoots.
If you do a lot of target practice they can really help save your hearing.
They do nothing to make the weapons deadlier, though you could argue that in very specific and unusual circumstance it could make it easier for a killer to kill someone without getting caught.
They're typically actually designed to protect people's hearing.
Guns should be restricted, but silencers aren't particularly special amongst gun accessories for being more dangerous or violent than any other.
It basically makes it so you get serious hearing damage slightly slower. The shot would still be heard from quite a distance.
Bump stocks and the things that make guns automatic-but-technically-not-in-the-legal-sense should be taxed to hell or outright illegal since they actually increase the danger.
They don't make them any deadlier. In fact, they are prone to cause problems unless you really know what you're doing. Remember Luigi? The reason his pistol kept "jamming" is because the suppressor was preventing the normal cycling of the weapon. This is very common, and has to be addressed with training, proper selection and fit of both the suppressor and firearm, as well as special ammunition. This is the real reason that most criminals aren't using suppressors. You can make them out of pipes and washers, oil filters... even 3d print them now (pretty sure this was the case for Luigi).
As someone who isn't used to hearing gunshots, you should be in favor of supressors. They're basically the only gun part that makes it less dangerous to you, a bystander
I don't understand why gun control people want taxes on gun-related stuff. If someone's going to go do a mass shooting, you really think another $200 on an attachment is gonna stop them. It's mainly going to penalize collectors like this guy, and there's zero difference in public safety between someone owning 26 vs 27 suppressors.
You don't want people to have suppressors, ban them. If you're not banning them, leave them be. Taxes and fees are just the worst of both worlds.
Owning and knowing how to safely use a firearm is an US right. I don't agree with the current interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, but the Supreme Court said so, and nobody asked me.
I'd encourage anyone here to seriously look into purchasing a gun and a silencer.
Also, a silencer won't save your ears. Guns are still super loud and a lot of bullets are supersonic. Get a can and some hearing protection and use both.
Of course, a lot of that probably depends on where you live.
Any machinist can make one, and probably for a lot less.
More importantly, this isn't a burning issue unless your an ammosexual who needs to scream about guns every 30 minutes or the shell-casings that make up your grey-matter start to bulge with pressure, or someone who thinks suppressors are like magic death sticks that make guns even scarier. This is a moderately successful attempt at creating more distraction and contentious social discourse.
Just scroll down, there are already hundreds of gun-obsessed lefties and libs even on Lemmy screaming back and forth about this like it's going to change the world and lead to more/less murders.
Meanwhile... the bandits continue to haul money out of our treasury, the laws that protect us are getting repealed, and the tools we needed to build a better democracy are being destroyed, all while the worldwide economy leaves the US behind.
I made one with a pvc, filled with layers of drywall repair mesh held together with pipe clamps. It's nice to being able to .22 plink at night. Not registering it even if there's no tax. Currently working on an even more naughty gun project. Didn't file taxes this year either.
I just don't care anymore now that they're sending citizens and non-citizens alike to federal concentration camps to await horrible fates. There's nothing to lose anymore.
People have even designed 3d printable one-piece suppressors at this point, no mesh or other filling materials required.
In a sane society, someone who hoards gun suppressors would be investigated to ensure they aren't a threat. But we live over here, where everything is batshit insane.
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