Brits with silencers

I’m pretty sure the real number is ‘zero’.

While that might be true (I don’t think it is….), it’s not really what I intended. I know there’s a buzz word to that effect, and I was punning without a permit on that, but I meant ‘sliding’.

Consider one tends to voluntarily move onto a slippery slope and you put yourself at risk (and usually can control that risk to some extent) through you’re own actions. OTOH, the Great Depression (and maybe this one in retrospect) was a shifting foundations thing. Folks are minding their own business, doing their jobs, paying their bills and so on and then they loose their jobs, loose money in stocks, get some serious medical or other bills. They can look out the window and see it happening to others, there’s a current of bad news out there. Folks are being randomly hit all around, things are sliding downhill.

I think the slippery slope part is when you take to theft or poaching (really the same I guess) to pay the bills. It is a very real dilemma for some, but it is also a matter of degrees. For instance how do you resolve the guy that is only shooting a deer (and taking the hind quarters….) to feed his family with a rifle that could be sold and would buy a pile of beans? Not all poachers are starving, but there’s sure to be more claiming to be than are?

Subsistence poaching is an issue for sure. Like I said, my understanding of the silencer laws has that as a base. Not violent crime. FWIW.

So you’re right, it’s a slippery slope. But that’s not the obscure point I was trying to make, then as perhaps now that is distorted by a sinking condition for ‘everyone’. Conditions are sliding out from under folks through no cause of their own. Makes for victims

Doug Owen

It’s a sliding slope kinda thing. “Everyone” was having money problems, just like today. Most worked around that by not breaking the law (just like today), some didn’t (again, just like today).

And for sure lots of guys would cry poor (just like today….) when they weren’t really that bad off.

So really things don’t change all that much I guess. Today we have the same problems with jurys. In light of this, I can understand the urge to remove the tools from folks hands. Loss of silencers in the name of game protection is one thing, taking away self defense guns ‘for the children’ is another IMO.

Doug Owen

As I recall the poaching story, it was basically impossible to convict one ‘in the day’. Times were tough, poaching for family food a fairly common practice, someone on the jury was a poacher or had one in the family. That too is an old story.

The net result is a ban on silencers we still live with.

Yes, it’s an old theme, but I guess ‘bad apples’ have been screwing it up for the rest since Cain killed Able.

Doug Owen

Gangsters and crime isn’t the only reason for silencer laws in the US. For obvious reasons, criminals usually want the noise and confusion, it’s part of the threat.

However, most of the laws in place are aimed at poachers. The came into being for the most part in the Depression. Or so I’m told. One of those ‘no legitimate sporting purpose’ deals.

Doug Owen

That’s because no one hears the shot and they don’t get caught LOL

See WTF do I know!!! 😀

I’d better go eat some Doritos and calm down!

The guy named The Patriot that commented on that article is a total idiot (way to keep up the stupid American stereotype moron!!!).

It’s great to see so many journalists writing opinion pieces without any regard for facts… 🙄

“when they found the silencers, which are regulated as tightly as machine guns and can’t be brought into the United States”

I believe machine guns are MORE tightly regulated than silencers, I know the costs are far less for a silencer permit than a machine gun permit… Am I also to believe that there are NO imported silencers from other countries… Hmm more misinformation…

Come on America, eat more Doritos and watch American Gladiators, truth is so overrated! 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄