From the New York Daily News:
Video shows shocking moment man is fatally shot by two masked bandits aiming pistols with silencers
Two masked bandits hopped out of a Jeep holding pistols with silencers — and blasted a man in the Bronx, killing him in cold blood, startling video obtained by the Daily News shows.
The victim, 51, is seen socializing in a parking lot on Holland Ave. near Boston Rd. in Allerton around 3:20 p.m. when the gunmen get out of the blue Jeep and open fire.
This is a snip of the video. You can watch it in the link above (I didn’t want to embed it because it auto-plays).
I don’t know if those are suppressors, but it sure looks like it from the security can footage.
If they are suppressors, I am about 100% positive that they are not legally obtained NFA registered.
Every once in a while I will see an ad for an “oil filter” or “fuel filter” that just so happens to come with a 1/2-28 female thread.
Make no mistake about it, these are VERY ILLEGAL TO OWN.
The ATF does not take lightly something that looks and acts like a suppressor, even if you call it something else. They will send you to federal prison for 10 years if you get caught with one.
So I suspect that shooters Wingus and Dingus in the above video got their hands on some illegal Chinese imported “solvent traps” to commit murder with.
But as we all know, those sorts of details are meaningless to politicians.
If these two committed a murder with suppressors then all suppressors must be banned, even though you went through an ATF anal probing, paid $200 to the Tax Man, and waited the better part of a year to legally get your can.
I’m not sure how many Republican politicians are going to take the brave stand in the defense of NFA owners, especially after the bump stock ban fuckery.
This worries me. It’s something we need to keep an eye on.
There are also “lead dust collectors” out there. Give me a break.
I don’t think anything will happen. It’s an election year, and COVID has captured the news cycle. There is no reason for politicians to be pushing gun control because this year, it just won’t get headlines.
Here’s hoping; then again, what can they sneak through while attention is elsewhere?
And I literally just picked up my very first suppressor this past Friday.
Now if only our local shooting range will reopen so I can actually, you know, try it out…
That’s what a back yard is for, now that you have a suppressor.
Just kidding. Don’t do that.
I already shoot in my ‘backyard’, just like most of my neighbors. A suppressor is just being polite.
To quote that Noted Sage And Moral Philosopher, John Denver, “Thank G-d, I’m a country boy!”