Well bless their little hearts . . .

[flamin lib]

God love 'em gun nuts are so gullible. They'll believe just damn near anything.

When ISIS suggested that their followers in the U.S. take advantage of lax gun laws to buy guns at gun shows or from individuals without a background check the NRA countered with: https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2017/05/15/53630/nratv-nratv-20170512-isis

That's right, they claim ISIS is secretly in cohorts with liberal gun grabbers to take away our guns. And it resonates with the Second Amenders.

Gun makers, in an attempt to get $200-500 deeper into gunner's pockets, promote sound suppressors aka silencers (which they aren't) as a safety device to 'protect hearing'. In fact a sound suppressor will reduce noise by a maximum of 40%, reducing noise from a major explosion to a minor one. It seems the only thing a suppressor does is make the gun 3 to 6 inches longer and of course that's enough for some. Really, the only hearing protection that works is over-the-ear muffs. But they don't make the gun longer or bigger, they only save your hearing.

Now the gun nutz are attacking Liz Warren over, get this, hearing aids.
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"Warren has teamed up with several Republicans on legislation creating an over-the-counter category of hearing aids, which proponents believe would lower prices, spur innovation, and help millions of people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss obtain devices and improve their lives. As few as one in seven of the estimated 30 million Americans with hearing loss gets aids, experts say, and a big reason is their high cost."
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“This legislation will make a life-changing difference for the millions of Americans with untreated hearing loss who don’t have access to hearing aid technology,” Warren said in a statement. “I’m really happy about the bipartisan coalition we’ve put together on this bill, in both chambers of Congress.”
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"A gun owners group argues that the legislation would impact hunters who purchase hearing enhancement devices as a way of better hearing their quarry. This, they say, is an infringement on their constitutional rights.

“In the past, antigun senators like Warren have used any pretext, however attenuated, to interfere with hunting and the exercise of Second Amendment rights,” the executive director of the Gun Owners of America, a group to the right of the bigger National Rifle Association and claims 1.5 million members, wrote in a May 16 letter to lawmakers laying out the group’s objections. “And we can only interpret this legislative initiative to be the most recent of these.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/05/28/elizabeth-warren-bill-hearing-aid-draws-opposition-from-gun-rights-conservative-groups/WMAAAo9Z8zAK7AzZnrRUII/story.html
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So let me get this straight, by making it easier to purchase hearing enhancement devices the gun grabbers are attempting to restrict access to, uh, hearing enhancement devices and is an infringement on the 2nd Amendment.

I wasn't even aware that hearing aids were covered in the 2nd Amendment but then THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE OUR GUNS AWAY.

Well bless their little hearts . . .

[RDANGELO]

1. The only sense I can make out of it is,

That the hunters will lose their advantage when the deer start buying hearing aids over the counter.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. paint it matte black and put tactical or spec ops on it

they will buy it even if it doesn't do a thing to suppress noise.

AFAIK "silencers" do nothing to silence the mechanical noises of a gun when fired or the supersonic crack of the bullet.

[HAB911]

3. If we can imagine it

they can imagine even dumber shit

[billh58]

4. Gun owners fear regulation from unlikely place: Hearing aids

From ABC News:

A proposal designed to make hearing aids more affordable has generated resistance from an unlikely quarter: gun owners.

A gun rights group is organizing opposition, because it believes the measure would change the way certain hunting products are regulated.

A bipartisan group of senators introduced the measure. It would allow hearing aids intended to compensate for mild to moderate hearing impairment to be sold over the counter, rather than by prescription.

But Gun Owners of America sees a different story. The 1.5-million-member group says the legislation could negatively affect hunters who buy hearing enhancement devices as a way to better track game.

Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, is one of the senators behind the bill. He says the proposal wouldn't affect hunting tools in any way.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/gun-owners-fear-regulation-place-hearing-aids-47770544

I believe that the real reason that the right-wing gun lobby is worried is that they are afraid that more people might actually be able to hear the terrorist extremism bullshit they spout.