Washington Post Misrepresented YouTube Video Showcasing .22 LR Rifle Suppressors

Washington Post Misrepresented YouTube Video Showcasing .22 LR Rifle Suppressors

A Washington Post report on firearm suppressors published over the weekend wildly misrepresented a YouTube video showcasing the sound-suppressing effects of a .22 LR rifle suppressor.

The YouTube video formed the basis of Washington Post reporter Mike Rosenwald’s inaccurate conclusion that suppressors can make “high-powered rifles” nearly silent.

“[G]un-control activists say silencers are getting quieter, particularly in combination with subsonic ammunition, which is less lethal but still damaging. They point to videos on YouTube in which silencers make high-powered rifles have ‘no more sound than a pellet gun,’ according to one demonstrator showing off a silenced semiautomatic .22LR,” Rosenwald claimed in the Washington Post.

The YouTube video, which was produced by Dan Abraham, a gun enthusiast who hosts the TheFireArmGuy channel on YouTube, shows no such thing. You can watch the video for yourself here.

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