Thread: Need some help please!

I was hoping that a fellow police officer would be able to clear the air about the legal use of suppressors in a country that does not regulate them and their use in crime in that country(NZ). Australian police consider suppressor far to dangerous to allow because of the potential use in crime. Now I may be drawing a long bow here but I would have thought that the criminal use of suppressors would have prompted the introduction of regulations controlling their use. I would have thought that if a police officer could convey to another police officer that the legitimate use of suppressors out weighs the potential criminal use. Considering that the majority of gun crime in Australia is very much more intimidation than silent use. Most gun crime does not even involve firing the gun. Why would a suppressor, which increases the size, weight and ability to conceal the weapon. Be beneficial to a criminal?