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ATF needs suppressors for “health and safety”

JMB1911A1

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So, it is being reported that the ATF is buying suppressors for their “health and safety”.

ATF response to story:

“We can confirm that suppressors were provided to qualifying agents in the Criminal Investigation Occupation Series 1811 for health and safety due to the extensive training and quarterly firearms qualifications they must complete. For operational purposes, ATF does not comment on specific firearms used nor the number of firearms held,” ATF’s Public Affairs Division said in an email.

Sounds like suppressors should be over the shelf for all firearms owners. Most of us shoot way more often than quarterly. No one should be denied basic gun safety equipment.

 
And ear protection is not an option because....
You don't always have the option and there's sometimes people around that don't know that gun is going to be fired.

A better question is why the prohibition on suppressors the only thing I can think of is because people watch too many movies and think that it turns a gunshot into a whisper.

That's like prohibiting mufflers on motorcycles because you won't hear that it's a motorcycle.
 
Trump has had some not so great history with gun rights. Remember deep down inside he is in New York liberal.
Liberal, conservative, hypocrite, he is NYC to the core. That is Not a good thing!
 
Liberal, conservative, hypocrite, he is NYC to the core. That is Not a good thing!
Sadly I'm elections you didn't get to vote for the best it's normally a vote for the least worse. If Trump didn't win Harris would have and I think that would have been much worse for gun rights.
 
So, it is being reported that the ATF is buying suppressors for their “health and safety”.

ATF response to story:

“We can confirm that suppressors were provided to qualifying agents in the Criminal Investigation Occupation Series 1811 for health and safety due to the extensive training and quarterly firearms qualifications they must complete. For operational purposes, ATF does not comment on specific firearms used nor the number of firearms held,” ATF’s Public Affairs Division said in an email.

Sounds like suppressors should be over the shelf for all firearms owners. Most of us shoot way more often than quarterly. No one should be denied basic gun safety equipment.


Wait, I thought that suppressors were only for assassinating people.
 
Wait, I thought that suppressors were only for assassinating people.

Well, the ATF will shoot your dog, your son, your wife, and your infant child for cutting a shotgun barrel 1/2” too short. Are those considered assassinations?
 
Well, the ATF will shoot your dog, your son, your wife, and your infant child for cutting a shotgun barrel 1/2” too short. Are those considered assassinations?

Technically, only if they sneak up on you to do it. I think most of that was televised.
 
Technically, only if they sneak up on you to do it. I think most of that was televised.
Ruby Ridge was televised? I thought the ATF started televising their “assassinations” with Waco.
 
Technically, only if they sneak up on you to do it. I think most of that was televised.
I remember seeing what they did in Waco.

Whether they enjoyed it or not is irrelevant the fact that these people will kill you means they're not to be trusted.
 
I remember seeing what they did in Waco.

Whether they enjoyed it or not is irrelevant the fact that these people will kill you means they're not to be trusted.
Well, proud enough of what they did that multiple agents had photos taken in the wreckage.

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Here is a collage of multiple agents around a dead body. Very disturbing so I’ll just post the link.
 
So, it is being reported that the ATF is buying suppressors for their “health and safety”.

ATF response to story:

“We can confirm that suppressors were provided to qualifying agents in the Criminal Investigation Occupation Series 1811 for health and safety due to the extensive training and quarterly firearms qualifications they must complete. For operational purposes, ATF does not comment on specific firearms used nor the number of firearms held,” ATF’s Public Affairs Division said in an email.

Sounds like suppressors should be over the shelf for all firearms owners. Most of us shoot way more often than quarterly. No one should be denied basic gun safety equipment.

There’s no logical reason for suppressors to be restricted items.
 
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