Great Idea. There Should Be More Of This

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, along with Sig Sauer and Daniel Defense, invited media people to a range in Virginia where they were exposed to firearms with and without sound suppressors. Like most people, the only experience any of them had had was movies and television.

The presenters emphasized the safety factor of suppressors.

The objective of the NSSF demo was to give the news media more accurate information about hearing protection devices. In addition, the NSSF wanted to correct many popular misconceptions about suppressors. Mainstream media reports about sound suppressors are typically inaccurate, incomplete, and misinformed. For example, most media stories fail to acknowledge that suppressors are legal throughout Europe, and widely used by European hunters and target shooters. If you were to believe the typical news report on suppressors, silencers are evil and dangerous. The NSSF demo was designed to replace ignorance with facts.”

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