PolitiFact: Clinton suppressor statements after Las Vegas shooting ‘False’

By Chris Eger

Former Secretary of State and frequent Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP/REX)
The fact checker project operated by the Tampa Bay Times on Wednesday described the assertions by former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that suppressors would have made the Las Vegas shooting worse as erroneous.
Clinton blasted the SHARE Act, a bill easing regulations on legal firearm suppressors, arguing the use of a suppressor would have made the attack which claimed at least 58 lives even worse.
“The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots,” Clinton said Monday. “Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.”
After checking with firearms experts, PolitiFact found the remarks did not hold water, rating them “False.”
The project consulted Tom Satterly, a combat veteran, and director of development for Asymmetric Solutions, a firearm training firm based in Missouri as well as Jeremy Mallette, who has researched suppressors for Silencer Shop.
The pair explained how sound propagates in urban areas, the factor of the supersonic “crack” from high-velocity bullets which suppressors do not affect, and that the devices only moderately reduce the sound of a report.
“It’s certainly possible that silencers or suppressors could make some shootings worse

Source: Guns.com