You'll never get them to be totally silent, but you can quiet them enough that they won't heard in a crowded room full of talking people, or for the report to be recognizable as a gunshot.īut I think the guys who have said you need to have a conversation with your complaining neighbor are correct. But were he to reload, he'd discover his silencer was no longer all that silent.įrom what I have read on sound suppression, the secret is to A) use subsonic rounds so you don't get the crack! of the bullet breaking the sound barrier B) to use a series of baffles inside the suppressor itself to break up the sound waves and disperse them, as well as attenuate the propellant gases and C) to mount the thing to a firearm that has a locked breech so everything goes just one way. If the KGB assassin using it was lucky, he might be able to fire all the rounds in his cylinder silently. My understanding is they essentially took a can, drilled a hole in the bottom a trifle wider than the diameter of the bullet, filled the can up with steel wool and threaded the top to fit on the specially threaded barrel of the Nagant. I note that the Soviets never really did grasp how sound suppressors work, apart from the very astute move of making some for the locked-cylinder Nagant revolver. I somehow don't think the BATFE is terribly fond of anything that might be construed as a sound suppressor, or that could be used to turn an ordinary soda bottle into a quasi-suppressor. I'd be cautious about using it, though, assuming you could even find one today. Back in the day the lamestream media used to refer to such a setup as a "ghetto silencer." Supposedly it was good for one shot, maybe two, per bottle. The idea was you shot through the bottle and it cut down the noise. There used to be a threaded collar for the AR-15 that threaded on in place of the flash hider, that was set up to take a 1 liter or 2 liter soda bottle.
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