• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

SCOTUS Rejects Challenge to Silencer Laws

CLAX1911 said:
I've heard of a flash suppressor.

That's too stop muzzle flash from bleaching the shooters vision as I understand it. But I thought a suppressor was used to conceal it from observers.
Click to expand...

flash hider=flash suppressor
 
TurtleDude said:
if you are shooting a rifle in low light (in daylight you cannot really see much of a flash at all) or in the dark-a flash hider helps prevent you being temporarily blinded by the muzzle flash. If you are down range of the firearm-looking at it-you can easily see the flash
Click to expand...

I thought if you are down range what a "silencer" was designed for was to hide muzzle flash from you not the shooter.

Is that wrong?
 
CLAX1911 said:
I thought if you are down range what a "silencer" was designed for was to hide muzzle flash from you not the shooter.

Is that wrong?
Click to expand...

TurtleDude said:
if you are shooting a rifle in low light (in daylight you cannot really see much of a flash at all) or in the dark-a flash hider helps prevent you being temporarily blinded by the muzzle flash. If you are down range of the firearm-looking at it-you can easily see the flash
Click to expand...

My reason for thinking that...

Source said:
The Maxim Silencer, patented in 1909, was a tubular device attached to the barrel of a firearm which reduces noise and muzzle flash when fired.

NRA Blog | Suppressors: The History
Click to expand...
 
CLAX1911 said:
I just thought that was their main intended purpose. Muffling sound was secondary.
Click to expand...

Nope because you don't need a tax stamp nor undergo a 11 month wait for a flash suppressor. Most of my semi auto rifles have flash hiders.
 
CLAX1911 said:
Honestly the only reason you have to go through all that is anti gun hysteria
Click to expand...

FDR wanted to ban handguns-he continued to want that after Hughey long was assassinated ( or killed by his own bodyguards). But he couldn't but he wanted to pander to people concerned over the violence that the government created bootlegging caused.So we had the NFA. Game wardens were upset that people were using suppressors to kill deer or cattle because they were hungry. And when they were arrested, their neighbors often acquitted them. So game wardens pushed to make possession of a suppressor a FEDERAL crime (hungry people couldn't afford a 200 dollar tax stamp)

that is why suppressors were restricted by the NFA. Dishonestly is what motivates almost all federal gun laws.
 
bongsaway said:
Marijuana is legal in some states but the federal government can still come in and bust people. Do you really think it would be any different if the feds got a bug up their arses for home made guns?
Click to expand...

I think you will find that when the federal government does make a marijuana bust it always involves interstate and/or international commerce. You are not seeing any federal agent making any arrests of marijuana users or growers who are manufacturing and using it wholly within a given State. If it involves interstate or international commerce then the federal government has a say in the matter. However, if it is entirely intrastate then the federal government has absolutely no say in the matter. That was the whole point behind the Firearms Freedom Act.
 
Glitch said:
I think you will find that when the federal government does make a marijuana bust it always involves interstate and/or international commerce. You are not seeing any federal agent making any arrests of marijuana users or growers who are manufacturing and using it wholly within a given State. If it involves interstate or international commerce then the federal government has a say in the matter. However, if it is entirely intrastate then the federal government has absolutely no say in the matter. That was the whole point behind the Firearms Freedom Act.
Click to expand...

Dude there are dozens of other ways Congress regulates intra and interstate commerce. Lopez did very little to affect that
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom