![]() Each are doing their part to chip away at federal gun regulation in the name of profits and ideology. The coordinated effort brings together the whole family: manufacturers, dealers, the gun press, rightwing lawmakers at every level of government, and the NRA. This Silencer Awareness Campaign is today’s gun lobby in a bottle. The firm Silencero - “We Dig Suppressors and What They Do” - has put together a helpful “ Silencers Are Legal” website and produced a series of would-be viral videos featuring this asshole. SWR Suppressors is asking survivalists to send a picture of their “bugout bag” for a chance to win an assault rifle silencer. America’s silencer makers are each doing their part. To nurture this potentially large and untapped market, the ASA last April sponsored the first annual all-silencer gun shoot and trade show in Dallas. Under the trade banner of the American Silencer Association, manufacturers have come together with the support of the NRA to rebrand the silencer as a safety device belonging in every all-American gun closet. It should surprise no one that the NRA has recently thrown its weight behind an industry campaign to deregulate and promote the use of silencers. The same qualities that make silencers the accessory of choice for targeted assassination offer advantages to the armed psychopath set on indiscriminate mass murder. By muffling the noise generated with every shot by sonic booms and gas release, a silencer would provide a new degree of intimacy for public mass murder, delaying by crucial seconds or minutes the moment when someone calls the police after overhearing strange bangs coming from Theater 4 or Classroom D. More minutes to hunt, meanwhile, might be gained by employing a noise suppressor, those metallic tubes better known as silencers. A fully automatic machine gun would provide the first. Improving their killing efficiency would require one of two things: the ability to shoot more bullets faster, or more time. The exercise starts with a militarized baseline, as both shooters unloaded designed-for-damage rounds from high-capacity magazines loaded into assault rifles. ![]() More starkly, imagine the means by which coming Auroras and Newtowns will be made more deadly. Witness cartridges such as the 458 SOCOM, 499 LWR, and 50 BEOWULF.A gruesome holiday season exercise: Think of some firearms and accessories that might have added to the body counts of Aurora and Newtown. It’s interesting that we never seem to learn from the past. ![]() I would guess that they are very rare, assuming any of them survived. HWS III will probably shed more light on them. I hope that yours is appropriately marked somehow. Not knowing what the headstamp was makes it difficult. ![]() I have never seen one of the GI experimentals or prototypes. Since there were shooters who actually used the cartridge for things such as Silhouette, I would suspect that there are other headstamps out there. I have one that is headstamped “BARNES AMMO” which I assume was made from the old Barnes cylindrical brass. Since the cartridge started life as a wildcat in 1962, I would label it as such. I assume that’s where you got your information also. If it was actually Frank who wrote it, the narrative would have considerable value, unlike much of the crap in COTW later editions. The only information that I’ve seen was in COTW, and I assume was written by Frank Barnes hisself.
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