Gun control lobby raises alarm over silencers

By James Robertson
Updated March 9 2016 - 11:08pm, first published 10:33pm
A gun with a silencer attached.
A gun with a silencer attached.

Tens of thousands of shooters in NSW can now apply for silencers on their weapons after the NSW government opened permit application forms to hunters and sporting shooters, a move gun control advocates have condemned as dangerous.

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