Theohazard
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Skans, you're only thinking about one kind of crime: The pre-meditated type. Lots of crimes aren't pre-meditated and instead they're crimes where someone doesn't think something through ahead of time. Sometimes someone who has gone through the process of acquiring a legal gun (a process that -- in some states -- can be more complicated than getting a silencer) still uses it in an illegal manner. Now imagine if they already had a silencer on that gun: It's completely possible with the large increase in silencer sales nationwide.Skans said:Hmm, perhaps, but do you really think someone who has been fingerprinted, photographed and on record with ATF would really use one in a crime? Why? It would be much easier and safer to make an illegal one if someone intends to use it in a crime.Machineguntony said:statistically, it is only a matter of time before a silencer is used in a crime.
Besides, you're assuming that all criminals are calculating and meticulous. But how many dumb criminals commit crimes driving their own registered cars? Heck, I've even seen stories of criminals leaving their wallets at the scene of the crime or wearing a jersey with their own name on the back. So it's not at all beyond the realm of possibility that someone might commit a crime with their own registered silencer.