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You know, Nancy, one of the fascinating things about suppressors, because contrary to what people think, they are not silencers.

You cannot knock down in totality a supersonic round.

That means a round that actually travels at the speed of sound or higher.

It does knock it down a few decibels.

Now, here's the interesting thing.

When you purchase a suppressor, and it's suppressing the sound, right?

You have to be registered with the ATF.

So the ATF absolutely has a record of this, unless this is something that was either purchased on the black market or something that he built, which people can do these.

But here's one of the big keys with this, Nancy.

It's not only that he's on the radar relative to the suppressor.

You have to have a specific weapon platform.

That means the handgun this thing was attached to, Nancy, it's got an external threaded barrel.

So if you see someone that takes a suppressor, they have to literally screw it or attach it on.

And those weapons are very specific.

So from an investigative standpoint, we're talking about connecting the dots here relative to not just the suppressor, but also the pistol itself.

I'll try not to.

Okay, let's take how this thing works in the first place.

If you think about a silencer as like a can, shaped like a can, cylindrical, and you split it down the middle, it's got a series of, and there's different forms, but this is the basics.