A handgun with a silencer and high-capacity magazine has no 'purpose other than increasing the gun’s lethality' for a mass attack, a gun-reform advocate said.
The Virginia Beach shooter who killed 12 people on Friday went room to room in the city's municipal building using a silencer that one survivor said made the semiautomatic firearm sound like"a nail gun."
High-capacity magazines and suppressors have been linked to some past mass shootings, and advocates for gun reform contend that their primary purpose is for mass violence — not gun sports. "It’s not necessarily the specific type of weapon that matters," Pete Blair, the executive director of the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training at Texas State University said, based on data his group has collected."It’s the number of weapons that people bring. Typically in the high-death events, it’s multiple weapons that are brought to the scene."
To Peter Ambler, executive director of the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence — a gun-reform advocacy group founded by“These devices are meant to suppress the sound of gunfire, to hide muzzle flashes, to confuse the location of an actual gunshot,” Ambler said. “That’s why they’re so difficult for law enforcement when they encounter them in these situations. It makes it more difficult for them to engage an assailant and increases casualties at shootings like this.
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