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Topic	Reading about a police officer trying to get suppressors allowed in department.
OctilIery 11/28/17 11:59:20 PM #29:	StucklnMyPants posted... Nomadic View posted... Law enforcement use firearms so rarely I dont see a viable reason for it. This. I'm not opposed to it, per se, but it's really not necessary. The overwhelming and vast majority of police officers will never fire their gun in the line of duty. From a statistical standpoint, the cost likely wouldn't outweigh the benefit. But if a department wants to spring for outfitting their employees with suppressors with their allotted funds, then more power to them. Suppressors should already be legal in the US. The idea that people will start committing more crimes because a gun shot is reduced in sound, is quite frankly laughable. To clarify, this would be used largely for special deployment groups. It'd be primarily for rifles, since it wouldn't be feasible on their pistols, and those deployment groups use their weapons more frequently, and are frequently in closed quarters, the two things which make hearing damage a big risk. Someone in the topic actually did do the math, and the savings more than made up for the cost. <cite>OctilIery posted [p:891246916] in Reading ab... [t:76034070]...</cite> <quote><cite>StucklnMyPants posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Nomadic View posted...</cite> <quote>Law enforcement use firearms so rarely I dont see a viable reason for it.</quote> This. I'm not opposed to it, per se, but it's really not necessary. The overwhelming and vast majority of police officers will never fire their gun in the line of duty. From a statistical standpoint, the cost likely wouldn't outweigh the benefit. But if a department wants to spring for outfitting their employees with suppressors with their allotted funds, then more power to them. Suppressors should already be legal in the US. The idea that people will start committing more crimes because a gun shot is reduced in sound, is quite frankly laughable.</quote> To clarify, this would be used largely for special deployment groups. It'd be primarily for rifles, since it wouldn't be feasible on their pistols, and those deployment groups use their weapons more frequently, and are frequently in closed quarters, the two things which make hearing damage a big risk. Someone in the topic actually did do the math, and the savings more than made up for the cost.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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