Salt Lake Tribune · Jun 2, 2019
Did a ‘silencer’ make a difference in the Virginia Beach carnage?
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Silencerco's public relations specialist Matt Pinnell resolves a Silencerco Saker ASR silencer back on a rack of silencers in the company's gun safe. Silencerco is one of the country's largest manufacturers of silencer for guns of all kinds, Friday, May 28, 2017. The shooter who killed 12 people in a government office building in Virginia Beach used a firearm equipped with a suppressor that muffles the sound of gunfire. It’s the nightmare scenario that gun-control advocates have warned about amid efforts in recent years to ease restrictions on the devices, which they say can help shooters escape detection and inflict more carnage.