“We need everyone to understand that silencers are
2. Not silent. They only bring the noise level down enough to not require hearing protection.”

If that is the case, I would conclude you are buying/using the wrong type of silencers. Hollywood can do it; recommend you get in touch with some of their armorers and find out which brand they use, especially regarding revolvers.

“It has to do with endangering our hearing.”

It has to do with criminals silently killing people and getting away, because no one hears the shooting; preventing them from identifying the time and direction of the shots. . . .which always leads to the arrest of the criminal. Just like short barrel rifles and shotguns let criminals conceal their weapons until they blast dozens of innocent people on the street, and get away because the shooters hide their guns after the shooting, and no one notices.

It has nothing to do with hunting. It has to do with endangering our hearing. How can people be dead set against a device that provides hearing protection for the shooter and bystanders

2. Not silent. They only bring the noise level down enough to not require hearing protection.

That’s true.

If needed yes, bigger picture there is more being undone than restricted right now but the faster and longer that can be pushed the better. Otherwise may as well bring back feudalism.

“Steps, Truman, steps. They took our rights one bit at a time, and that’s how we get them back.”

Rights were removed over decades. Should we accept it will take decades more to restore them (all the while, the commies keep taking more rights)?

Nobody needs no stinkin’ suppressor to hunt. All that is needed is a single-shot, bolt action, rifle of sufficient calibre to bring down a polar bear. Gunshots do not harm animals’ hearing. Besides, gunshots scatter herds, allowing most to escape danger; leveling the playing field. Indeed, it should be illegal to trap animals, and then shoot them. Go into the wild with just yourself, and the rifle, like in the olden days. Prove you can hunt without a bag full of hi-tech gadgets to bring back food for the winter. After all, animals can only depend on the tools with which they were created.

“Does this bill give gun owners the right to purchase a suppressor without paying $200 and filing firms? Something tells me the answer is no.”

An old Russian military strategy saying comes to mind :

“Don’t let the best be the enemy of the good enough”.

Steps, Truman, steps. They took our rights one bit at a time, and that’s how we get them back.

Steps…