Suppressors on Mythbusters
Airing this Wednesday. I’m wondering what myth they are busting, exactly? Maybe that silencers actually make a gun silent, rather than just quieter? If you need any more evidence to believe that suppressors are going mainstream, this is it.
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My personal opinion on why they were controlled in the first place was because they look evil, as the anits would say.
I consider it a safety device for myself and those around me. I would really hate to damage the hearing of my wife and kids in a defense situation.
I own several and you still need ear pro with full-speed factory loaded ammo. The closest I have gotten to true hearing safe is an Osprey 9 in a Glock 19 with Fiocchi subsonic 9mm ammo. Shooting that combo I could maybe avoid ear pro for a short time.
Nothing in a rifle caliber is safe regardless of the suppressor.
Note I do not include .22lr in any of this because I do not consider it a real man’s caliber. ;)
Mythbusters has done more “de-demonize” guns than any other organization (and in SF to boot!).
Perhaps those “Mythbuster” TV people can use their show to bust the myth that there was ever actually a reason to put federal and state legal restrictions on silencers in the first place.
I have read somewhere that a supposed reason to include silencers in the NFA of 1934 was to deter poaching during the Great Depression years, but as Patrick already wrote in his post above at #2, silencers aren’t much good with rifle-type ammunition, and subsonic .22 LR cartridges could never drop the types of big game animals that are prone to poaching, like deer, bear, elk, etc.
If silencers were over the counter, I guarantee they immediately become ghetto bling.
“subsonic .22 LR cartridges could never drop the types of big game animals that are prone to poaching, like deer, bear, elk, etc.”
Never say never.
@ beat: Only if the silencers were garishly decorated would they likely ever become “ghetto bling” as you called it.
@ Diomed: Let us know when you’ve bagged a 700+ grizzly with a silenced .22 LR rifle, that is, if you don’t get mauled to death by that same bear first.
Deer get bagged with subsonic .22 regularly. I can’t speak to the others, but hey, I’m not the one who made the statement that included deer.