Illinois Law Enforcement Officials Mislead Public About Silencers

By Bob Owens

In a surprisingly balanced ABC 7 report about a bill proposing the legalization of silencers in Illinois, several Illinois law enforcement leaders show that they are either uninformed about the use of the noise-reducing devices, or are being intentionally dishonest as they attempt to prop up the state’s draconian gun control schemes.

The dishonesty began with rabidly anti-gun Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart:

“Frequently the telephone calls that come in to law enforcement about problems that occur on streets come from neighbors and the like who have heard gunshots out there; it draws law enforcement to the area where the shots were fired from,” said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. “If there was none of that, it would decrease the ability for law enforcement to get to a location and quickly find out what happened and maybe the people who did it are still in the general area? Yeah, it would hurt.”

Dart is either dangerously ignorant—quite a possibility— or is being purposefully deceptive in asserting that silencers completely suppress the sound of a shot being fired like you see in Hollywood movies.

That simply isn’t true.

Ed Wojcicki of the Illinois Association of Police Chiefs says …read more

Via:: Bearing Arms