Sen. Chris Murphy: Firearm Suppressors ‘Primarily Designed for Crime’
On Thursday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D) railed against House Republican efforts to remove the NFA regulations on firearm suppressors, describing the devices as items “primarily designed for crime.”
The NRA posted Murphy’s speech, wherein he said, “Silencers are the tools of killers, they are the tools of criminals, period, stop.”
He then built on his claim calling for Congress to “stop the mass legalization of silencers in this country” and by praising Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) for fighting against Republican efforts to de-regulate suppressors.
Later in the speech, Murphy described suppressors as devices that are “primarily designed for crime.”
Murphy also offered the based-on-Hollywood take that suppressors completely eliminate the sound of a gunshot, rendering firearms silent:
On May 31, 2019, a man attacked innocents in Virginia Beach using a handgun with a suppressor, according to MSNBC. Yet the Washington Postreported that witnesses said, “We kept hearing gunshots.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at [email protected].
