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Now to be fair that did not actually establish a solid correlation between the two. As an Op-Ed piece I wouldn't expect a source to that assertion either. From the context of the "When Congress passed the National Firearms Act in 1934 to regulate machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and short-barreled rifles favored by Prohibition-era gangsters, silencers were thrown in for good measure." If anything that more firmly establishes the crime motive. Though honestly I don't truly know if silencers were prevalent in crime of that period either.
I am persuaded by the safety aspect, but isn't there already effective protection available through headsets?
can you find any evidence of "silencers" being used in crime.
it seems to me the duty should be on the government to prove this sort of attempted ban is needed, not the other way around. I don't believe in banning anything civilian police officers have in terms of firearms-the only laws we need are ones that punish the MISUSE of an item.