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Sen. Lee again pushes bill to end restrictions on firearm silencers

Washington • Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has re-introduced legislation to erase restrictions on buying and owning firearms silencers, a move quickly denounced by gun-control groups as a dangerous proposal that will make Americans less safe.

In previously introducing the legislation, Lee pitched his bill, dubbed the Silencers Helping Us Save Hearing Act, or SUSH Act, as a way for hunters, sportsmen, and marksmen to lessen the chance their firearms will damage their hearing and noted that silencers only diminish the sound of a shot and not make them actually silent.

“Suppressors don’t work like they do in the movies.