The people that would misuse them, don't care about the law anyway, so why ban law abiding people from having them too? Poachers are going to poach, regardless of having a silencer or not. Gangbangers are going to do drivebys, silencer or not. So really why not? A law only affects those that would follow it in the first place. Any machinist that knows what they're about could make one, but they don't. Why? Because it's illegal. Won't stop someone that doesn't care about the law in the first place. Make them legal, and make it hurt real bad for misusing them (additional non-reducible 2 year sentence in addition to whatever other charges are pressed?). Simple. But we don't live in a world of common sense.
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