{"id":1356,"date":"2015-04-30T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/04\/30\/the-big-money-behind-silencers\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:25","slug":"the-big-money-behind-silencers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Big Money&#8221; Behind Silencers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10713,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/abc7chicago.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/abc7chicago.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10714,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.sigsauer.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.sigsauer.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago&#8217;s ABC 7 I-Team<\/a> is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">let us know tonight about the &#8220;big money&#8221;<\/a> who is behind a move to legalize suppressors in the state of Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Big money? Bwa-hah-hah. The suppressor industry &#8211; with perhaps the exceptions of Remington Outdoors&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigsauer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SigSauer <\/a>&#8211; is made up of a number of small businesses. Some are mom and pop operations while others may have 2-300 employees.<\/p>\n<p>Silencers are a safety item. They do not totally cut out the sound; they merely muffle it to a safer decibel level. Anyone who says differently is just restating myth and legend.<\/p>\n<p>I just had my annual hearing checkup on Monday. I shot some in my younger days without hearing protection, attended some auto and boat races with no hearing protection, and, of course, a few rock concerts. I now suffer constant tinnitis (ringing in the ears) and some hearing loss.<\/p>\n<p>About the only &#8220;big money&#8221; who would benefit from keeping suppressors banned are the hearing aid manufacturers and I doubt even they would want to build business that way.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=504707\" width=\"476\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago&#8217;s ABC 7 I-Team is going to let us know tonight about the &#8220;big money&#8221; who is behind a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1420,1595,196],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hearing-loss","tag-hearing-protection","tag-suppressors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10305,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/10305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}