Suppressors
Paul A. Clark, "Criminal Use of Firearm Silencers," Western Criminology Review 8(2), 44–57 (2007):
The Lexis/Westlaw database contains 153 cases
over the past ten years in which the evidence suggests a
silencer was used for a criminal purpose — including unlawful possession of a silencer where no other crime was
committed. That gives an average of about 15 reported
cases each year, and assuming this represents close to half
of all prosecutions, one can assume 30-40 total cases per
year. This is out of 75-80,000 federal criminal prosecutions each year. Overall numbers certainly suggest that
silencers are a very minor law enforcement problem.
Moving from the overall numbers and looking at
more specific offences, it appears that use of silencers
in truly violent crime is even more rare.
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