Funny how that only seems to effect law abiding licenced people. Criminals have absolutely no troubles. Hell they even get out of jail faster than you can leave your house.
Canadian Law - when does a blast can become a supressor/silencer?
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Funny how that only seems to effect law abiding licenced people. Criminals have absolutely no troubles. Hell they even get out of jail faster than you can leave your house.
Now, what I want that policy to BE is another thing entirely!I'd like to see us like Finland, where NOT using a suppressor can be punished by law in some areas...
-M
id rather have the choice. i could imagine not always wanting to add 10-16 inches to my firearm length
I'd like the choice too - a guy doesn't always want to add length or weight to the end of a rig...
-M
Well you are Canadian and I am Canadian and neither of us is afraid of suppressors.
Maybe we could start a movement and convince the other 31 million Canucks to change their minds? Pussy ........ !
Seriously though, there is NEVER a time when I don't feel like shooting suppressed. Once you get exposed to it, the idea of making all that noise for no good reason becomes uncivilized. In the last 7 or 8 years that I have been working with silencers, there has NEVER been a time when I thought that I should just leave the cans home and go loud for the afternoon.
Pussy ........ !
Seriously though, there is NEVER a time when I don't feel like shooting suppressed. Once you get exposed to it, the idea of making all that noise for no good reason becomes uncivilized. In the last 7 or 8 years that I have been working with silencers, there has NEVER been a time when I thought that I should just leave the cans home and go loud for the afternoon.
Well, how much to partner with you on your business venture so I can play with cans too???
Damn prohibited devices license... lucky bastard...
-M
I'd say about 90% of the firearm laws in this country, hell, firearm laws in general are based on hollywood productions.
Fully automatic guns? Kills entire masses of people in one sweep.
"High powered" rifles? Shoots down planes and armored vehicles.
Silencers/sound suppressors? Makes a rifle report sound like a mouse fart.
Fully automatic guns? Kills entire masses of people in one sweep.
"High powered" rifles? Shoots down planes and armored vehicles.
Silencers/sound suppressors? Makes a rifle report sound like a mouse fart.
Hokus Grey
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LMAO!!!
I had this conversation the other day with someone who has nothing against firearms, but thought it was good we didn't have supressors.
I just asked them if they thought that there would be a sudder glut of hitmen on the market all of a sudden and they just looked down and stopped talking.
I had this conversation the other day with someone who has nothing against firearms, but thought it was good we didn't have supressors.
I just asked them if they thought that there would be a sudder glut of hitmen on the market all of a sudden and they just looked down and stopped talking.
... because that is EXACTLY what they DID think.
Honestly, hoplophobia is such a pervasive mental illness in today's society.
-M
Hokus Grey
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Yup. I laughed long and loud about it. This is a perfectly intelligent and rational individual who has let some type of irrational fear gestate in their mind to the point they react in an unreasonable fashion that even they can't explain.
I then went on about the fact that their only experience with firearms was through movies and video games.
I then went on about the fact that their only experience with firearms was through movies and video games.
Hit 'em hard and hit 'em often, Hokus!
I've said the same thing to many people - "honestly, do you think that allowing people like me to own suppressors would mean life would revert to a friggin' cloak and dagger video game?"
No rational answer...
-M
I've said the same thing to many people - "honestly, do you think that allowing people like me to own suppressors would mean life would revert to a friggin' cloak and dagger video game?"
No rational answer...
-M
With all the usual caveats that come with Wikipedia, although you'd hope legality issues would be fairly clear... it looks like they aren't allowed in Austria, Italy, or Turkey. Czech Republic and Denmark allow them in theory, which sounds like Canadian law with respect to prohibited devices. The Dutch allow them only for air guns. The Poles... allow you to own suppressors, but never allow you to use them.
So, discounting countries that prohibit private ownership of firearms entirely, the developed nations of the world by this criteria would be Norway, Germany, Sweden, Finland, the UK, New Zealand, and the US, but only in thirty-eight states. That's a fairly socialist list we've got here, isn't it?
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so this may have been asked somewhere in the forum, but what are the steps needed to take to get suppresssors out of the prohibited category? A mircle?
find an MP willing to sponsor a bill and put it before the government. then educate members on the subject, followed by lots of finger crossing, and praying.
A few years ago, a friend in a European country that does not allow suppressors, wanted to try and see how much - a movie generated idea of a large Coke bottle at the end of his carry gun (a P35 loaded with 147 gr JHP, subsonic) - will reduce the muzzle report. So, he asked me and I told him that indeed a coke bottle can be an effective as a one or two shot suppressor for a .22 but I didn't know how much reduction in report would result for his 9 mm. Well, I thought it was self explanatory that he had to use a plastic bottle! Apparently it wasn't. A brain fade later, glass shards everywhere and in his hands and lots of screaming, I don't think he heard the shot so it must have worked. Not the sharpest knife in the set but a hell of a good shot...
