Posted January 24, 2017 8:45 am by Comments

By Bob Owens

A Glock 22 .40 S&W with SilencerCo Osprey suppressor. Handguns are the primary firearm chosen by criminals because they are easily hidden. Suppressors are not used in crime because outside of Hollywood, they make handguns impossible to hide, and do not silence the gun.
A Glock 22 .40 S&W with SilencerCo Osprey suppressor. Handguns are the primary firearm chosen by criminals because they are easily hidden. Suppressors are not used in crime because outside of Hollywood, they make handguns impossible to hide, and do not silence the gun.

You’ve got to give the Washington Post a certain amount of credit for tenacity; once they’ve chosen a lie, they run it into the ground no matter how many times they’re called out for it.

The Post‘s reporters—whom I’m willing to bet have never fired a silencer-equipped firearm in their lives—have spent the last few weeks making fools out of themselves as they howl in opposition against the Hearing Protection Act of 2017, which would pull silencers out of the National Firearms Act.

Michael Rosenwald was the first Post reporter to dishonestly attack silencers as tools for gangsters and other criminals, and we quickly shut him down. His piece was so bad factually that another Post reporter—one who has actually fired guns—called me to help the Post write a correction for Rosenwald’s screw-ups.

The Post‘s editors, apparently more committed to ideology than facts, then refused to run the retraction.

Gluttons for punishment, the Post then had a New York …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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