Go back and read puglove's post!
It wasn't that you hadn't asked the question. The "rookie mistake" was that the silencer would have been missed if Bamber had dumped it.
No, I understand that perfectly, I just don't agree.
First, it was a sound moderator. If we're going to be strict about it, I'm not sure there is technically even such a thing as a 'silencer'. The use of the term 'silencer' is, to my understanding, a colloquialism and misleading.
Yes, it could have been missed, but the point is proof. You assume that the relevant family members would have come to the realisation that the moderator was missing, but how would they have known that? All the immediate family who might have known about the moderator were now dead. And surely Bamber would have known this intuitively? He had lived there, he was a member of the immediate family, and he worked there, and he will have used the gun itself.
Surely Bamber would also have been able to figure out that even if subsequently the extended family had noticed that the moderator was missing and said: 'Oh look, there's a missing silencer', it could have been missing for any one of a number of plausible reasons completely unconnected with the killings. Somebody might have lost it before the killings for unrelated causes. The police might, somewhere down the line, have decided that the absence of the moderator was a telling indicator of Bamber's guilt, but unless it could be found, its absence was not evidence of his guilt.
And wasn't there more than one moderator/silencer anyway?
I still maintain that Bamber would have been better-served taking the moderator away - assuming he did it - and I also maintain my bafflement that Bamber would calmly return the moderator to its proper place after killing five people, all immediate family. Maybe that's what prompts your objection here? Subconsciously you share my concern about Bamber's supposed actions.
No moderator, no forensic evidence. But if he did do it, then I'm glad he didn't remove the moderator and he was caught.
So, I did understand the post that was directed at me, it's just that I had covered that ground already. If I responded inappropriately, that was because of the way the information was provided. A vicious circle has been created on this Forum, and I would contend it is due to the attitude that anybody who asks questions should be treated rudely and attacked. You will deny this, but your other posts are a case in point, and they have been highlighted to the Moderator on the Announcement thread.