So one of the Republican candidates who just lost was Blake Masters, running for US Senator from Arizona. He lost to sitting Senator Mark Kelly. The reasons are fairly obvious: Masters is a ghoul, for reasons too numerous to go into here. Recently,
this campaign video -
campaign video! - has popped up, showing Masters firing a Walther PPK with a "dead air mask silencer" (his words), in a hamfisted attempt to ingratiate himself with gun lovers (but apparently, those who will not fly into a blind rage upon hearing the term "silencer"). I found this video interesting.
I am aware that "silencers" (or suppressors) do not actually make the high-pitched
zip! noise shown in nearly every movie. However, in other videos I've seen (like
this and
this), they still make a noticeable bang... just a smaller one. But in the first video I linked at the top, there's the click from the gun action, and the shell landing I suppose, and then the slap of the bullet hitting the target. No audible explosion from the gun whatsoever.
So, two questions:
1) Is that video from Masters a fair representation of existing products that are currently available to everyday citizens (in good legal standing)?
2) If guns with the sound profile shown in Masters' video were widely available, would America be
safer or
less safe from criminal activity?
edit: corrected broken URL
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