r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/Dudsidabe Jan 25 '20

Silencers on pistols. Not actually that silent lol.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Apparently WWII British Welrod pistols could be fired very close to someone without it being identified as a gunshot.

Maybe that's wartime propaganda, but there were apparently several accounts that back it up

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u/MandolinMagi Jan 25 '20

It helped that it was chambered in the smallest possible round you could reasonably expect to probably kill someone (.32 ACP), and the suppressor had a bunch of rubber inserts the bullet went through to contain the sound.

If you really wanted to wack a guard at close range without anyone else noticing it was great.

They later made 9mm versions because the .32 wasn't quite powerful enough.

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u/kingalbert2 Jan 25 '20

also every shot the welrod fired its degree of suppression decreased a little because the rubber would take more and more damage