Did a ‘silencer’ make a difference in the Virginia Beach carnage?

The shooter who killed 12 people in a government office building in Virginia Beach used a firearm equipped with a suppressor that muffles the sound of gunfire. It’s the nightmare scenario that gun-control advocates have warned about amid efforts in recent years to ease restrictions on the devices, which they say can help shooters escape detection and inflict more carnage.But gun-rights advocates and most law enforcement experts say DeWayne Craddock’s use of a suppressor likely had no