What's Next, Banning Pillows?
If what I see on crappy cop shows is correct, a pillow makes a pretty good silencer.
Apparently, so does the Chore Boy household scrubber, and the govern-nannies are going all banny on its ass (when "stockpile"[d]). Bob Unruh writes at WND:
A letter has surfaced from the federal government warning against consumers stockpiling Chore Boy household scrubbers because they can be considered a component of a gun silencer and, therefore, regulated by federal gun laws.The letter is from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the ATF. It was obtained by David Codrea, who publishes online as the Gun Rights Examiner.
And it comes from a federal agency that earlier determined a 14-inch-long piece of shoestring must be regulated under federal gun laws and restrictions because it is a "machinegun."
The government might need more revenue, but while it can do this, I'm inclined to support any measures not to give it a dime. In fact, anything this stupid should be grounds for immediate abolition of the agency and firing everyone in it.
Is it just the Chore Boy brand? Are cheap foreign imports exempt?
I've heard you can make a silencer from a 2 liter soda bottle as well. We could ban them. Pipe can be used to make a silencer, let's ban that in DC. Why just DC? They don't need sewers, they are full of it already.
The proper term is suppressor, since they muffle, but do not eliminate the noise. If you want silent, try a knife.
These are the same guys who released a few thousand guns to the Sinola cartel in Mexico. They are poster children for a Federal Agency that should be abolished.
MarkD at November 28, 2011 4:37 AM
No one who's making illegal suppressors is going to go to that risk, and effort, using !@*! chore boy pads! That's asinine.
A basic, real-deal suppressor is a very simple affair. It's basically a tube w/ baffles to compress and redirect the sound. You could make one w/ about $7 in materials and it would work a hell of a lot better than wadded up scrub pads.
jermy at November 28, 2011 7:09 AM
I thought the real argument about Chore Boy was that it could be used as a filter for a crack pipe.
The hood-rat convenience store where I used to shop had Chore Boy stacked up at the register, right next to the fake roses in glass tubes (the tubes were used as pipes).
Kevin at November 28, 2011 7:31 AM
There's a no-dialogue action scene in "The Departed" in which the hit man quickly improvises with a two-liter plastic bottle. Good or one shot, although his method left a lot of GPR for the paraffin test.
Is cheap and simple, as saith jermy. Most expensive bit will be buying a thread-cutting tool for the barrel, unless your one of those tasteless people who use duct tape.
The Real Argument is that clueless bureaucrats react from ignorance and fear, thinking that bad people will not do bad things if we take away every possible tool. It's the PEOPLE who are bad, and some of them will be always and utterly bad until they look up one day and see the base of a two-liter coke bottle pointing at them.
Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder at November 28, 2011 8:22 AM
Check out comment 6 here: http://www.saysuncle.com/2011/11/15/expensive-pot-scrubbers/
for more. Along with the other comments. Basic problem: "The laws are both overcomplicated and stupid" about covers it.
Firehand at November 28, 2011 11:54 AM
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