Gun Control Groups Are Losing The Battle Against Suppressors

Back in March, the NRA detailed how WaPo’s very own ‘fact check’ had to rebut the claims from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) that a firearm ‘silencer’ makes a weapon ‘quiet’:
In the meantime, although the popular name of this accessory is a silencer, foes of the law such as Gillibrand should not use misleading terms such as ‘quiet’ to describe the sound made by a high-powered weapon with a suppressor attached. We wavered between Two and Three Pinocchios, but finally tipped to Three. There is little that’s quiet about a firearm with a silencer, unless one also thinks a jackhammer is quiet.
However, as PA Gun Blog pointed out, gun control groups (in conjunction with the MSM) went on a Memorial Day weekend push to demonize suppressors in the eyes of voters. As the NRA also pointed out, WaPo’s editorial board went against its own ‘fact check’, and in the absence of facts, chose to editorialize against firearm suppressors instead:

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 8, 2017.