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I really like their ad campaigns. We're never going to get suppressors off the NFA list until we raise awareness of them and make people realize that they're not some tool only used by assassins so they can shoot people during a professional golf tournament and nobody would hear them.

I wish it were cost effective to have lots of billboards, though. It'd be a great way to get the message out.

posted @ 6/8/2010 4:24:34 PM

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Sailorcurt says:

on 6/8/2010 5:20:26 PM

I don't think the one you linked to is the best idea.

Yeah...doesn't talk about assassins, talks about war.

So, from the perspective of a non-gunnie: Why would civilians need them? You planning on making war on the neighborhood?

I also don't like their perpetuation of the term "silencers" in the lower right corner.

That is also the source of major misconceptions among the uninitiated.

ctd says:

on 6/10/2010 4:13:30 PM

Civvies need them because civvies need to protect their hearing, and it's better to make the gun quiet than require everyone around have ear protection; because it's polite to not make more noise than necessary; because repelling home invaders at oh dark thirty shouldn't cost you (and your wife, and your kids, and your dogs) your hearing.

And because they're cool.

BTW: yes the correct term is "suppressor", but most of the population knows them as "silencer". Sometimes you just have to use the popular term because the audience doesn't know the correct term and there isn't time to get distracted with corrective nuances.

Sailorcurt says:

on 6/11/2010 12:12:15 AM

I know why civilians need them.

But I'm not one of the people you have to convince.

And, yes, the general public is familiar with the term "silencer"...from the movies.

Those are the things that assassins use to get away with murdering people with no one hearing them.

Why is it again that you need one of those?

Again, I'm not speaking for myself...I'm on your side. I'm just playing devil's advocate for what someone who's never thought much about the subject would think.

I don't think that ad helps to convince them. And they're the ones we need if we're ever going to get suppressors removed from the NFA.

Unless, of course, your goal isn't to gain general acceptance of their usefulness to get them removed from the NFA, but to keep them on the NFA while enticing gunnies who have the money to buy them at the inflated rate that is the result of the NFA.

Selling $30 worth of materials and engineering for upwards of $1,000 (and in some cases even more). What a way to make a living.

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