At least 59 dead, 100 injured in Las Vegas shooting

[Batman]

@El Kabong

You seem to be the resident gun expert, whats the crack with this business about silencers?
What difference would it make if they were legalized?

I see that Hill Dogs statement has annoyed some people.

I always thought that the ''put put' noise that you get from silencers in the films is pure fiction and that real silencers don't make much of a difference to the volume at all so what are the arguments for and against.

[El Kabong]

@El Kabong

You seem to be the resident gun expert, whats the crack with this business about silencers?
What difference would it make if they were legalized?

I see that Hill Dogs statement has annoyed some people.

I always thought that the ''put put' noise that you get from silencers in the films is pure fiction and that real silencers don't make much of a difference to the volume at all so what are the arguments for and against.

1. It's a suppressor not a silencer as it suppresses the sound coming out of a gun.

2. They are for hearing safety not much else. If you hunt big game or if you just shoot a lot then you need either a suppressor or ear protection. I have ear protection. The thing about ear protection is not only does it protect your ears, you cannot hear anything else you might want to hear while hunting/shooting.....like for example, somebody warning you they are approaching. I'll use a suppressor if it's available if for nothing other than convenience and safety.

3. If you want to actually learn about firearms do not waste time listening to Democrats because they know fuck all about them.

4. Suppressors depend on the kind of bullet used as well. I've shot suppressed target pistol .22's (very small caliber rounds and very small gun...think the Duck Hunt gun from NES) with subsonic (slower than the speed of sound) ammunition and those are pretty whisper quiet. I have shot a suppressed MP5 fully automatic and that's a little louder because it was using (.45 acp [Automatic Colt Pistol] subsonic rounds). Now the SAW which apparently the Vegas gunman was using......that would MELT a suppressor pretty damned quick...also it's not really tactically sound to limit the best thing about your weapon. The SAW can spit out PLENTY of bullets very rapidly, having a suppressor to worry about would just slow the gunman down which in turn would give authorities looking for a shooter more time to look and the gunman less time to fire so to answer Hillary's 'Er muh Gerd what if he had uh silencer?' question "Actually it may have saved lives had the shooter had to deal with a suppressor because although it would be harder to hear it would cause overheating a lot quicker than NOT having a suppressor"

The movies (Hollywood run by faaaaar lefties) often get guns very VERY wrong and they'll lead people to believe that you wouldn't be able to hear anything at all from a suppressor the "put put" sound you mentioned, also there's that pesky reloading you come across every so often which isn't cool enough to show in movies. Some movies, like Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down do a good job being real, but there are a lot where it's spray & pray (holding the trigger down moving the gun back and forth and hoping you hit somebody) and no reloading

[brocktonblockbust]

]I'm against taking guns away from law-abiding citizens but there has to be some kind of a rigorous stepped-up extreme vetting psychological and psychiatric evaluation which should be conducted over about a 12-month period once every 90 days to make sure that someone is not going to snap. This guy seemed like a law-abiding citizen was 64 years old with a half a million dollar house for crying out loud who the hell would think you would do something like this?