Many firearm regulations, both inside and outside the US, are based on inaccurate perceptions of how things work (eg: suppressors), or things just looking scary.
Where I live, I can get a licence for a semiautomatic center fire rifle rather easily. So long as its not of a "military style".
So I can own a Mini-14, which fires 5.56/.223 rounds, etc, but not an AR-15 despite there being no functional difference between the two rifles. They both have the same standard magazine capacity, same round, etc.
The reason for this comes down to one being "military style" and the other looking more like a hunting rifle.
It would be somewhat reasonable to want to regulate suppressors if they worked like they did in movies. It's completely unreasonable to regulate suppressors given how they actually work.
Aside from forensic ballistics being mostly junk science, if your suppressor is contacting the projectile in a way that deforms it... you're going to have much bigger problems.
Where I live, I can get a licence for a semiautomatic center fire rifle rather easily. So long as its not of a "military style".
So I can own a Mini-14, which fires 5.56/.223 rounds, etc, but not an AR-15 despite there being no functional difference between the two rifles. They both have the same standard magazine capacity, same round, etc.
The reason for this comes down to one being "military style" and the other looking more like a hunting rifle.