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So one of the Republican candidates who just lost was Blake Masters, running for US Senator from Arizona.  He lost to sitting Senator Mark Kelly.  The reasons are fairly obvious: Masters is a ghoul, for reasons too numerous to go into here.  Recently, this  (https://twitter.com/bgmasters/status/1445208944184487937) campaign video - campaign video! - has popped up, showing Masters firing a Walther PPK with a "dead air mask silencer" (his words), in a hamfisted attempt to ingratiate himself with gun lovers (but apparently, those who will not fly into a blind rage upon hearing the term "silencer").  I found this video interesting.

I am aware that "silencers" (or suppressors) do not actually make the high-pitched zip! noise shown in nearly every movie.  However, in other videos I've seen (like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eDoeWr_9BQ) and this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKE6MrCQ08Y)), they still make a noticeable bang... just a smaller one.  But in the first video I linked at the top, there's the click from the gun action, and the shell landing I suppose, and then the slap of the bullet hitting the target.  No audible explosion from the gun whatsoever.

So, two questions:

1) Is that video from Masters a fair representation of existing products that are currently available to everyday citizens (in good legal standing)?
2) If guns with the sound profile shown in Masters' video were widely available, would America be safer or less safe from criminal activity?

edit: corrected broken URL

Every time I had to sit through a Blake Masters commercial leading up to the election here in AZ, I did a slow burn. Between he and Gov candidate Kari Lake, not sure who I despised the most.

Glad we came up blue where it counted the most...whew!!  And proud that I voted early for Kelly and Masters.

While not exactly on topic, it should be noted in that video he fired 16 rounds without reloading, however that gun has a capacity of 6.

There are cuts in the editing, which would allow for reloading.
He does fire 7 times in one cut, though. 6 round magazine + 1 chambered round, I guess?  I'm sure there are plenty of people who can explain it.