Latest Silencer News Criminals Can Use

Letter to Romans: Most 2^nd Amend advocates concede there are some constitutional gun control measures like banning silencers full stop. The issue is now debated in the Mangione murder trial & after a Ukrainian is convicted for manufacturing them at home …

As the Fox News coverage recently noted, the lawyers for accused assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione, have been papering the court with a myriad of motions to dismiss or block the prosecution’s evidence, including the silencer recovered by the cops at or near the murder scene. A retired NYPD detective who had investigated the CEO’s murder told Dateline the silencer recovered is unlike he’d ever seen in his 25-year career. “It had something on the front, like a homemade suppressor or silencer-type thing,” he said.” Other investigators says it shows the sophistication & planning behind the crime, which can be used by the state to establish the critical element of “intent.”

Meanwhile, Fox reported a “Ukrainian national who completed Air Force officer training” was convicted in a ghost gun 3D printing operation that included the manufacturing of silencers. The five counts levelled at him arose out of the authorities “intercepting illegal gun parts from China” and after uncovering a “ghost gun” 3D printing operation inside his home.” A federal jury in the Southern District of Illinois found one Yaroslav Vishnevski of Harrisburg guilty of, among other things, possessing unregistered short-barreled rifles & shotguns, and obliterating serial numbers while operating an illegal weapons workshop with Chinese parts. Court docs show authorities had seized 3D prints and a “Ghost Gunner desktop CNC machine – “a tool commonly used to mill untraceable “80% firearm receivers and untraceable weapons, including 3D printed silencers.”

Davd Soul