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Originally Posted by zxcvbob
Because they are illegal? With great difficulty and much paperwork, I'm pretty sure I could buy a machine gun here. But the idiots at the state legislature explicitly ban a piece of safety equipment! (silencers) I suspect they are banned because they do have a useful everyday purpose and are within the reach of ordinary gun owners. We can't have that  |
Actually, they're banned because the original NFA included a ban on
handguns and they couldn't get the votes. Handguns were removed and replaced with silencers. No body really cared about silencers, apparently.
Now, the only thing Americans know about them comes from movies. They serve no legal purpose, they turn ear splitting gun shots into "pffft" and no one but evil assassins would use them.