Hello darkness, my old friend! I've come to talk with you again because the nutjobs in the Oklahoma legislature want to make it easier for people to own gun silencers.
In case you haven't heard, Sen. Michael Bergstrom, a Derplahoman from Adair, filed an unconstitutional bill that would "exempt gun silencers from federal law and regulations if manufactured and kept within Oklahoma," because you know, the last thing we want to do is regulate devices that make shooting another human a little quieter.
Here are details via KFOR:
An Oklahoma state senator wants to open the free market for the purchase of firearm suppressors, also known as silencers.
Sen. Michael Bergstrom, R-Adair, filed Senate Bill 1098, which seeks to exempt gun silencers from federal law and regulations if manufactured and kept within Oklahoma.
I know this bill is nothing more than a blatant attempt to pander to gun nuts, insurrectionists, anti-vaxxers and all the other Oklahoma Republicans who fantasize about a violent overthrow of the United States government, but I don't have a huge problem with this.
First of all, as Next Door has taught us, it's really difficult to distinguish the sound of a gunshot from fireworks. At the very least, this bill would take care of those annoying posts, and clear the clutter for people wanting to look at lost dogs, porch pirates and requests for handyman recommendations.