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by josephcsible 1433 days ago
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.
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Yep. There are plenty of videos on Youtube where you can hear how some actual suppressors sound. For example, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwarGzJ9R8
What about ballistics / forensics side of things? Don’t they make it harder to identify bullets?
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.