09-16-2017, 11:37 PM
stanc Wrote:Why do you say it's extremely unlikely? Pollution controls imposed by government are not left to the people to decide whether or not to implement them.
If you want to effectively control gun noise pollution, suppressor use will have to be mandatory for all firearms. This ploy can only backfire on gunowners.
I say it's extremely unlikely because it represents a complete 180-degree reversal of decades of suspicion and criminalisation of suppressors by the authorities. The authorities would resist it themselves as it makes them look like idiots. Entities like the Police would resist it because they believe suppressors have potential to facilitate crime. Plus the logistics of threading, manufacturing, cost, effort and imposition by the Government would see the NRA and other representative bodies vigorously oppose it. Thanks to Hollywood, the community ignorance of the actual efficiency of these things would see non-shooting legislators treating the initiative with suspicion - and such a wide, encompassing, complete reversal of the status quo would need all stake-holders to be enthusiastic about it. Even Blind Freddy can see that compulsory suppression on all guns will never happen so it's pointless even discussing such a fantasy.
But, given this is so obvious I suspect you are simply enjoying stirring people up in a good debate...