The organization officially entered the silencer-awareness fray in November of 2011, around the time the Utah-based American Silencer Association was founded. Proponents of healthy hearing will be heartened to know the NRA shares Gun World’s concern for America’s tender young ears. “To use an overworked propaganda phrase, legalize silencers ‘for the sake of the children.’” “One only has to look at children in the rest of the world learning to shoot with silencers, protecting their tender young ears, to see what an innocent safety device we are talking about here,” writes Dickson. Among the opening shots in the campaign was a feature in the February 2011 issue of Gun World, “Silence is Golden,” penned by the veteran gun writer Jim Dickson. In case you’re wondering, the answer is yes, the gun lobby’s grand strategy rests grotesquely on fake concern for child hearing health. Together, they plan to strip the longstanding regulatory regime around silencers, and reintroduce them to the gun-buying public as wholesome, children-friendly accessories, as harmless as car mufflers. Each are doing their part to chip away at federal gun regulation in the name of profits and ideology. The coordinated effort brings together the whole family: manufacturers, dealers, the gun press, rightwing lawmakers at every level of government, and the NRA. This Silencer Awareness Campaign is today’s gun lobby in a bottle.
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The firm Silencero - “We Dig Suppressors and What They Do” - has put together a helpful “ Silencers Are Legal” website and produced a series of would-be viral videos featuring this asshole. SWR Suppressors is asking survivalists to send a picture of their “bugout bag” for a chance to win an assault rifle silencer. America’s silencer makers are each doing their part. To nurture this potentially large and untapped market, the ASA last April sponsored the first annual all-silencer gun shoot and trade show in Dallas. Under the trade banner of the American Silencer Association, manufacturers have come together with the support of the NRA to rebrand the silencer as a safety device belonging in every all-American gun closet. It should surprise no one that the NRA has recently thrown its weight behind an industry campaign to deregulate and promote the use of silencers. The same qualities that make silencers the accessory of choice for targeted assassination offer advantages to the armed psychopath set on indiscriminate mass murder. By muffling the noise generated with every shot by sonic booms and gas release, a silencer would provide a new degree of intimacy for public mass murder, delaying by crucial seconds or minutes the moment when someone calls the police after overhearing strange bangs coming from Theater 4 or Classroom D. More minutes to hunt, meanwhile, might be gained by employing a noise suppressor, those metallic tubes better known as silencers. A fully automatic machine gun would provide the first. Improving their killing efficiency would require one of two things: the ability to shoot more bullets faster, or more time. The exercise starts with a militarized baseline, as both shooters unloaded designed-for-damage rounds from high-capacity magazines loaded into assault rifles. More starkly, imagine the means by which coming Auroras and Newtowns will be made more deadly. A gruesome holiday season exercise: Think of some firearms and accessories that might have added to the body counts of Aurora and Newtown.
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