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Silencers aren't very common at all, hence why they haven't cropped up in many shootings. I don't think the fact that the hurdles to their proliferation have prevented them being used much in shootings supports your case, in fact it demonstrates the opposite.

According to the NRA, there are about 1.5 million suppressors of every kind in the US, and their ownership skews heavily towards the wealthier gun owners because of the aforementioned hurdles to their possession legal or illegal, and scarcity. That is a pitiful figure in comparison to the number of guns in private hands, and even the number of just American citizens.

When you consider that the vast majority of people with guns are not out committing crimes and that silencers of all kinds are still very rare, its easy to see why they aren't being used in mass shootings. But more importantly, it is not mass shootings that I'm talking about, I'm talking about murder, which silencers do a much greater amount to facilitate. If you are trying to commit a normal murder and get away undetected, then not having people hear notice the sound of gunshots because they are muffled or distorted makes that much easier. I stand by my point, if suppressors were more common, then murder would become much worse.

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