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There are very few cases of the actual use of a silencer in a crime, that is, a firearm is discharged with a
silencer attached. Of the federal court cases reported in
the Lexis/Westlaw database between 1995 and 2005, there
are only two cases of a silencer being used in a murder in
the United States. One was a case of an armed robbery
of a postal truck in which the driver was shot (U.S. v.
Gallego, 191 F.3d 156 (2d Cir. 1999)). In the other case,
best described as a gang style “hit,” one of the partners in
the gang was murdered with a silenced firearm in 2000
(U. S. v. Williams, 372 F.3d 96 (2d Cir. 2004)).
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What kind of risk-benefit analysis concludes that statistical zero risk, is too much?