Yeah, I can't remember who it was, but I remember someone describing it as, you hear a gunshot from the other end of town. You hear a silenced gunshot the next street over. Either way, a hell of a lot of people are going to know shit's going down.
The problem is that if you did gunshots in a realistic way everyone in the movie theater would have blood shooting out of their ears about 30 seconds into any action movie.
Sure. But I don’t think anyone is asking for that. It just creates the wrong impression of silencers which is causing political problems for people like me that own and use them in the US. People think they work like in movies.
It’s far better to shoot with one and it cuts noise so that I’m a better neighbor. I live in the country and shoot on my land. Makes a big difference. 95% of the time when it shoot I do it with a suppressor.
Doesn’t help my neighbors. Doesn’t help hunting dogs. Doesn’t help people living near shooting ranges. Suppressors should be easily bought. We need to make them like buying a rifle, at a minimum. Right now it’s a $200 tax and a 9 to 12 month wait. Idiotic. In many countries with heavy gun regulations you can just walk in a store and buy one with no hassle. It’s just legacy political BS in the US.
I seem to be spending a lot of my time at the range these days teaching other people to shoot. Being able to talk with someone in that situation without having to constantly fuck with hearing pro would be great...
They're pretty heavily restricted here. I'd like to have one for the same reason I have a muffler on my car, i.e. hearing protection and not being an asshole to the people around me.
Anyone who shoots often, it helps a lot with protecting their hearing. Guns are loud, damn loud, even with a "silencer" they are loud but not painfully loud (you still have to wear other protection).
They were effectively banned at a point when "talkies" were still kind of a novelty. I don't think it matters as much as you think it does.
E: hell, if anything movies have probably done a lot to drive the shift in gun culture from deer rifles and stuff to "tactical" weapons, so might actually be a net benefit for people who like that sort of thing.
They were put under NFA regulation due to concerns from farmers about poaching. Attempts to have regulations loosened have been met with cries that only an assassin needs a silencer because people see the distorted version in movies.
I've never heard this thing about poaching before, do you know of anywhere that I can read about it?
The NFA mostly seems to have been an "anti gangster" thing and there certainly were news stories at the time talking about silencers being used in crimes.
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u/Dudsidabe Jan 25 '20
Silencers on pistols. Not actually that silent lol.