I'll give you a few good reasons for a silencer:

1) home defense. Guns are loud. Guns inside are even louder. Do you want to expose your children to that in the event there's an intruder in your home?

2) shooting outdoors without pissing off neighbors. There are some ranges in residential areas.

3) shooting a lot without damaging your hearing. Even with muffs and plugs, gunshots can damage your hearing

4) accuracy. The additional weight on the muzzle helps reduce recoil.

Now, tell me reasons why not a silencer. And keep in mind that if HPA passes they will be treated like a firearm so there will still be a purchase background check. You just won't have to wait 8 months for the Feds to give you permission.

When I say "transfers" I mean giving a gun to someone else. Loan, gift, or sale. 594 is such a POS law that even if we're out hunting and my rifle fails so I want to use yours, we'd have to go to a FFL and perform a background check. And want your rifle back? There's another background check. Got a concealed pistol license? Doesn't matter. Still have to do the check. Your life-long friend is in the army and getting deployed so wants you to hold on to his collection? Each gun needs a background check. Oh and these checks aren't free because of the paperwork involved (they are logged in the FFL's record book). Most FFLs charge $30-50 per gun.

What's the point of a law like that other than to create hassle? It hasn't reduced crime one bit. In fact the only time it's been invoked is as an add on charge to some drug charges.

I think it was you that mentioned how much the NRA spends on lobbying. Unfortunately, here in WA, the NRA was outspent something like 10:1 by Bloomberg's organization during the I-594 election. So who really has the deep lobbying pockets?

At this point in my life, I can't move. But I sure as hell vote. Unfortunately, the Seattle area has a huge number of liberal voters who keep voting for tax hikes (my car tabs are going up by $200 this year because of a new tax) and anti-gun laws. If you look at a county breakdown, 594 was voted down in a majority of counties. But still passed because of Seattle's massive influence on the state.

So yeah...gun owners have made lots of concessions. Let's have concessions made back our way.


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