A gunman in a high-rise hotel overlooking the Las Vegas Strip opened fire on a country music festival Oct. 1, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. (Taylor Turner/The Washington Post)In the wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas that left at least 58 people dead, the attention of those advocating for stricter gun control laws seized on a current debate in Washington. An automatic weapon creates so much heat that it rapidly deteriorates the effectiveness of sound suppression (or simply melts it). The shooter in Las Vegas fired on a concert from a hotel across the street. As Satterly pointed out, then, allowing the use of suppressors more widely probably wouldn’t have made the tragedy in Las Vegas much worse.

Source: Washington Post October 02, 2017 17:56 UTC