Results of Sep 12th SHARE Act Legislative Hearing (Included HPA)

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We got here mainly because of emotional reactions to events. Generating an emotional response is "what wins hearts and minds." An inane argument about reducing noise pollution won't.

Discharging a firearm inside my home in an emergency isn't an inane argument, nor is wanting to protect the hearing of animals when hunting (horses and dogs for example).

I fully agree. And those are good arguments, unlike the "reducing noise pollution" silliness.

There is no need for me to have to justify why I want or don't want to use a particular firearms accessory to some power hungry despot and any other citizens that feel I should have to make my case to them as to why I want to use that device.

That's very idealistic, but not realistic. The reality is that you do have to comply with legal requirements to buy and possess some devices.
Unless, of course, you wish to break the law and face the consequences if caught...

Statist control freaks are going to assault your rights at every chance I guess...

Of course they will.

The gangster-on-gangster machine-gun ambushes and drive-by shootings were no justification to regulate machine-guns, but they did that too. The St. Valentines Day Massacre between Al Capone's goons and the North Side Irish Gang in Chicago happened on Feb. 14th, 1929. At the time, a lot of the legislation in States dealing with organized crime they helped create with Prohibition was focused on short barreled shotguns first, then machine-guns.

It's interesting how they use extreme cases of career criminals to justify eradicating the rights of everyone else.

It's not surprising. People generally use whatever method they think will further their goal.