Are they cops?
Are the ICE?
Are they cosplayers?
Source: https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/LosAngeles/comments/1lfe5gb/ice_brandishing_silencers/
Are they cops?
Are the ICE?
Are they cosplayers?
Source: https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/LosAngeles/comments/1lfe5gb/ice_brandishing_silencers/
These do not work the way they do in the movies. If he fired that rifle it would still be quite loud even with the suppressor on. But the difference it makes is that if he fires it indoors it won’t blast out the ear drums of everyone in the room.
I’d say the more important thing to point out with this picture is that the reason why they’re kitted out like this is that they want to discourage people confronting them as they’re committing another atrocity in plain sight. They know that people will not stand powerless much longer as someone is being kidnapped before their eyes.
Honestly the suppressor is the least egregious part of the whole setup.
Thank you, I’m glad to see someone else making this point. Like you said, there’s plenty about this that’s seriously fucked up already, the suppressor is not the problem.
But most people only know about this stuff from Hollywood (not their fault, if anything I’m grateful that the average Lemmy user has little personal knowledge of firearms, the world would be better if everyone could be so ignorant), and thinks that suppressors / “silencers” are some kind of devious tool only used by people looking to do surrupticious murders, because that’s how they’re always portrayed.
This is also why silencer bans are fucking stupid, all it does is changes it from “goodbye ear drum” to “well that was loud”, I am generalizing somewhat but my point still stands. Unless we are talking about some obscure shit like the Welrod which is ridiculously silent because like most of the damned gun is silencer, it’s more silencer than gun.
I always like to say it takes a gun from “definitely causing hearing damage” to “probably not causing hearing damage… Right away”
Great point. Silencers/suppressors are for the comfort of the person shooting the gun. Those are part of group combat in urban warfare. So they aren’t impacting themselves or their brown shirt friends with muzzle blast while shooting people inside houses or other buildings.