23 April 2014

Gubs for the day


Sam Frizell has a Time article about, amazingly, suppressors...
A new report shows that gun owners are eager to accessorize, despite silencers often costing more than the weapons they're meant to hush. Sales to civilians in the US rose to about half a million units in 2013, nearly forty percent above the 360,000 sold a year earlier
Silencer sales to civilians shot up 37% in 2013 to nearly 500,000 units, increasing from 360,000 in 2012 and 285,000 in 2011, CNNMoney reports. There’s now a nine-month wait to register silencers with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE).
The silencer-buying frenzy is the second wave of gun-related purchases in the last two years. After the Newtown massacre, gun owners feared that a weapons ban would be enacted, and rushed to buy assault rifles. Now that last year’s push for universal background checks has failed, gun owners have a lot of guns on their hands, and are outfitting them with gadgets including silencers, flashlights, laser scopes, stocks, pistol grips, and rail systems.
“People have gone crazy buying guns, but they’re done buying them for the time being, so they’re buying accessories,” Ben Shim, a firearms instructor and gun industry analyst with CRT Capital Group told CNNMoney.
Silencers are regulated by the 1934 National Firearms Act, and are legal in forty states. While purchasing a gun requires a photo ID and an electronic form submitted to the BATFE, purchasing a silencer requires applicants to mail a photo and fingerprints to the BATFE and pay a two-hundred dollar tax. And they often cost more than guns, approaching prices over a thousand dollars.
The thought of a silenced gun conjures up the image of a black-gloved hand wielding a smoking pistol in some grimy back alley, but advocates say they’re in demand because they allow hunters to fire multiple shots without frightening game. “Silencing is not a crime,” is the slogan of Georgia-based Advanced Armament Corp.
Rico says everyone calls them silencers, but they ain't silent... (And they don't fit Rico's Civil War gubs, either.)

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