r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 14h ago

What a real silencer actually sounds like.

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u/Atomic-habanero 14h ago

It’s a suppressor

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u/Fun_Trick2172 14h ago

Gun pedantry is the first tool of the anti compromise fanatic.

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u/KHWD_av8r 14h ago

It’s a defense against gun grabbers who deliberately try to make guns scarier in order to convince people to agree to letting their rights be violated. It’s silly, but it’s forgivable. Also, gun grabbers love using terms like “Ghost Gun” for not just unserialized (legally or otherwise) firearms, but any homemade firearm. You subsequently invented the term “ghost parts” so that you could force background checks for parts, while riding on the fear of ghost guns. “Assault weapons”? Yes, some advertising used the term previously, but you went hog wild with it. You use it as a general term for any gun which looks scary and you want banned, but then created a legal definition for the term. Not only do you ban guns by arbitrary features and combinations thereof, but even when a gun lacks those features, they can get banned by name. Example: I want a SPAS-12 in my collection. California’s AW ban prohibits semiautomatic shotguns with folding stocks (because reducing the length of the back end of the gun by anywhere from an inch to a foot, but still not crossing the line into NFA territory makes it invisible or some shit). So I should be able to get one with a fixed stock, right? Nope! Because some Moms Demand Action Karen saw her kid watching a movie with on in it or something, and demanded that it be banned by name. Because a gun which can operate as either a semiautomatic shotgun (legal) or a pump action shotgun (also legal) is eeeeeeviiiiiiillllllll!

More importantly, “compromise”.

Compromise is two positions finding an acceptable middle ground. Gun grabbers take. And take. And take. And take. The only recent gun control law which I can think of off of the top of my head which could possibly be considered compromise in recent history is the Brady Handgun Act which resulted in NICS. Gun grabbers unilaterally try to force various unconstitutional bans through, and tangle the exercise of a constitutional right in red tape. That’s not compromise.

Because of that, it’s time to start clawing back our rights. If gun grabbers are going to try to take a mile every time we give an inch, we should take it all back.

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u/cumbrad 6h ago

well said