As I've said for many years "crime prevention" is a hot button for me.
This type of crap is rather annoying to me:
A Lincoln man will spend close to five years in federal prison for possessing a homemade gun silencer.
On Monday, United States District Judge Richard Kopf sentenced Douglas West to 57 months in prison following his conviction for unlawful possession of a silencer.
West, 50, admitted guilt in May 2009 after being arrested in Lincoln in 2006 with the homemade silencer.
The U.S. Attorney says tests conducted by the ATF laboratories confirmed that the device functioned as a silencer and that it had been used as gunpowder residue was detected inside the device.
A pillow or any number of household items also functions as a sound suppressor. And furthermore in some countries you are required to use a suppressor. Here you are punished if you don't pay the $200 tax or you try to make your own.
And even using the criteria listed in the article, that it functions as a suppressor and that it had gunpowder residue inside the device, I'll bet they could meet that standard using my coat sleeve even though I have never fired a gun through it.