Noise suppressors on ordinary firearms are of little use to criminals, terrorists, etc. They reduce the amount of noise, but only from very loud to just loud. That said, using subsonic ammunition, readily available for .22 caliber firearms, does allow a silencer to make the gun very quiet. A criminal could also hand load subsonic ammunition for other calibers. That's why they're strictly regulated, as they should be. There is no compelling reason to repeal the law. Shooting can be done in a location where the noise will not bother anyone.

government has had to take the Harper government to court to get their long gun registry information that Harper wanted to destroy? That was NRAESQUE on the Harper government's part.

Fact is, the gun lobby up here is a very pale shadow of the lobby that owns the U.S. Congress.

Gun owners want silencers, because they think silencers make their firearms look more badass. Further evidence of the increasingly childish nature of gun ownership and usage (as if any further evidence was necessary).

49% of your recent posts, situated there. End of discussion.

endless veracity of all things gun can be so easily manipulated by gun manufacturers. Gun makers oppose "smart guns" not because they are unreliable but because it would require a change to the factory floor which still looks like it did in 1840. Gunners drink up the coolaid even after being shown the proof, research and veracity of those providing it.

Now it's suppressors which don't really do much on even modest caliber guns. Only the smallest, lightest calibers can be "silenced" and then if it's not sub-sonic the bullet makes as much noise as the report on an un-suppressed gun.

Gunners will eagerly accept any sales pitch given them by the gun companies regardless of how stupid and expensive the gadget is.

On the bright side there's a $200 fee to own one, so it will at least provide some revenue for the government so many of them hate.