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Sales of gun silencers are exploding. That doesn't sound good.

Courtesy of Time Magazine:

Gun silencer sales in the United Sates are exploding as firearms owners are looking to accessorize.

Silencer sales to civilians shot up 37% in 2013 to nearly 500,000 units, increasing from 360,000 in 2012 and 285,000 in 2011, CNNMoney reports. There’s now a nine-month wait to register silencers with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

The silencer buying frenzy is the second wave of gun-related purchases in the last two years. After the Newtown massacre, gun owners feared that a weapons ban would be enacted and rushed to buy assault rifles. Now that last year’s push for universal background checks has failed, gun owners have a lot of guns on their hands, and are outfitting them with gadgets including silencers, flashlights, laser scopes, stocks, pistol grips and rail systems.

“People have gone crazy buying guns, but they’re done buying them for the time being, so they’re buying accessories,” Ben Shim, a firearms instructor and gun industry analyst with CRT Capital Group told CNNMoney.

Okay so if the rationale for owning a firearm is for protection of home and family, what is the rational for owning a silencer?

Even if you are one of those sovereign citizens types who believe that any minute the Feds might break down your door to take your guns, and make you pay taxes like any other reasonable person, why would wanting to fire back at them silently make any sense?

It wouldn't.

This is an accessory that is only required if you want to kill without being detected.

And the fact that these are being purchased at this rate, should alarm everybody.

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