KS adopts a "European style" firearms law I can agree with...

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hunting with silencers/suppressors (go NRA!!! :headbang:) ...

The Kansas Legislature has approved a bill that would allow the use of silencers for hunting, fishing and fur harvesting. The bill, supported by the National Rifle Association, is awaiting Gov. Sam Brownback's signature. The Hays Daily News reports that the bill received only one no vote in the Senate and was unanimously approved by the House last week.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/field-notes/2011/03/kansas-legislature-approves-silencer-hunting-bill

Link to status and text of bill... http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/year1/measures/sb152

Earlier discussion regarding the benefits on the use of silencers/suppressors for sporting and recreational purposes..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x397160

I'm just wondering why the legislature didn't go all the way and include shooting ranges in the bill?

[PavePusher]

1. Good. n/t

[onehandle]

2. Yeah, Europe SUCKS!

[rrneck]

4. Was there a point here? nt

[petronius]

8. Is that a beer-margarita ? Nasty...

:puke:

[Callisto32]

9. Appears that way.

Double nasty, since it appears to be Corona.

Sorry, yuppies, that shit sucks, even with a lime.

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18. "Eurpope sucks" !

Well... whadda ya'know...

For once, we agree on something.

Despite whatever flaws this country might have, I'll take our way of life over any "Europeons" rule of government any day of the week.

[Xela]

3. Good. Noise pollution control...

Also, silencers can save a lot of people from hearing loss.

Xela

[RC]

5. Now you can shoot your friends and neighbors during an argument and nobody will hear.

[Straw Man]

6. Is that why the Europeans use them?

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

7. Perhaps... although, you can't post baseless ingorant tripe on DU without anybody seeing.

:eyes:

[Callisto32]

10. Right, since suppressors make a gun entirely silent.

It doesn't sound like you just discharged a firearm at all!

:sarcasm:

[timo]

11. clearly

you know NOTHING about shooting with a can........FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!

[ManiacJoe]

15. That would be a very expensive argument.

[GreenStormCloud]

16. Real life silencers don't work the way they do in the movies.

In the movies they reduce a BANG to a phfft. In real life they reduce the BANG to a BANG.

[WatsonT]

24. Silencers don't really make the gun silent

[rl6214]

26. You really don't know how a silencer works

do you?

[pipoman]

12. Awsome!

Brownnose is a smarmy thug but I suspect he will sign this bill..Next year I will be shooting coyotes in my yard with a canned AR-10 so as not to disturb my neighbors..

[Euromutt]

13. "Use of silencers for ... fishing"?

How do you fish with a firearm, suppressed or otherwise?

[rrneck]

14. Shit man.

You shoot fish in a barrel right here all the time.

[GreenStormCloud]

17. You sit in a tree or stand above very clear water and shoot the fish.

You have to remember to offset for the light refraction. Use a large caliber. The concussion should knock the fish out and he floats to the surface. Friend in a boat collects the fish. Similar to fishing with dynamite.

[pipoman]

19. I am from KS and have no idea either..

isn't shooting into water like a big 'don't do' of shooting?

[GreenStormCloud]

21. Depend upon the angle with the surface of the water.

Shooting at a steep angle is no problem. Shooting at a shallow angle causes the bullet to ricochet, like a stone skipping on the water. It still isn't that bad if you know that it is clear down range.

[inna]

20. isn't this kind of stuff supposed to be in the dungeon, or something?

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[K8-EEE]

23. Next we'll have Pro Helicopter Shooting Forum

Wouldn't be be even MORE fun if you could shoot animals from a helicopter WITH SILENCERS? Cuz what if they hear the gun shots. They might run. Where's the sport in that?

[Katya Mullethov]

25. They do in fact run quite fast

Not a big on lactic acid myself ....
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/texas-legislature/texplainer-how-real-is-the-feral-hog-menace/

[Straw Man]

27. Oh my my...

Wouldn't be be even MORE fun if you could shoot animals from a helicopter WITH SILENCERS? Cuz what if they hear the gun shots. They might run. Where's the sport in that?

Yeah, because it's not like they would have heard the helicopter coming or anything...

Sigh. I pity your poor straw man, who is collapsing under the weight of his own idiocy...

[Straw Man]

28. I didn't know that silencers skewed right.

If so, why are they legal in socialist hotbeds like Finland and France?

[Mojorabbit]

29. It isn't right wing crap. It is liberal crap

We are a big tent after all and some of us don't cherry pick our rights.