President Donald Trump said he’ll "seriously look" at banning gun silencers after last week’s mass shooting in Virginia.
“Well, I’d like to think about it," Trump said in an interview with Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. “I’m going to seriously look at it."
While Trump said he didn’t "love" the idea of a ban, he also was unhappy to see the frequency and severity of mass shootings in the U.S.
Trump’s comments represent a potential crack in Republican opposition to stronger gun control measures.
They follow a shooting last week at a municipal center in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in which a gunman killed 12 people. Police recovered a high-capacity magazine and a silencer mechanism from the scene.
Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, said Tuesday he will summon lawmakers back to the state Capitol to consider a package of gun-control legislation. Republicans control the state’s legislature. Northam’s proposals include a ban on silencers and high-capacity magazines.
The Trump administration earlier this year banned bump stocks, devices that let a semi-automatic weapon fire like a machine gun.
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[–] 19052437? ago
I guess i'll start making my own suppressors in minecraft since it's literally just a tube with a series of baffles and a rubber wiper. In fact the mechanics are essentially the same method that allows a muffler to function. You're just trying to force the escaping gases into a series of chambers which are the chief source of a firearms sound profile, by trapping and slowing those gases you can muffle their sound very effectively. Hell, if you know what you're doing you can even make one in minecraft that is practically silent aside from the sound of the action. If you wanted to you could also take an oil filter and drill a hole in one end, in minecraft, and use it as a suppressor. The hardest part is just finding one that has threading that will thread onto your minecraft guns.