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A lot of people use silencers on their home defense guns. Firing a gun with no hearing protection is a pretty jarring experience, and a suppressor can help qui

A lot of people use silencers on their home defense guns. Firing a gun with no hearing protection is a pretty jarring experience, and a suppressor can help quite a bit with that.

kzrdude 4y ago
Does it make the laser "piow" noise in real life too? Or that's just the cinema effect
- mwint 4y ago
  No, it goes KABANG (instead of KABLAAAAAANG). There are a ton of YouTube videos of people testing this, they’re usually a pretty fun watch.
  - Taek 4y ago
    Usually with no DB measurement. I couldn't find a single video of someone using silenced subsonic rounds with a decibel meter.
    - girvo 4y ago
      There’s a reason for that! Standard dB meters that most YouTubers have easy access to simply aren’t accurate enough for guns, even suppressed ones.
- ch4s3 4y ago
  A cinema effect, which is why they’re usually called suppressors. It lowers the decibel level of the sound enough that you can fire without ear protection and not risk damage to your hearing.
- gmiller123456 4y ago
  They are no where near as quiet as movies would have you believe. There are a lot of factors that come in to play as to how quiet they are, like if you're using sub-sonic ammo, the size of the supressor, barrel length, what the bullet hits, and more. Sadly, I'm sure a lot of their regulation has to do with how they're portrayed in movies rather than reality.
- jethro_tell 4y ago
  The stuff that's mimicked in movies would probably be something like a silenced 22 short round or maybe a subsonic 22LR round. The primary noise of a gun is the bullet breaking the sound barrier, the secondary noise is the actual powder burning. You can absorb some of that with a suppressor but if you shoot a round that goes faster than the speed of sound, you'll still get an audible and identifiable 'crack' A hand gun round will usually run you about 145-160db. There's a lot of variation here like barrel length, load, all of which influence speed which is also a factor. Take 30db off that with a suppressor and you're still looking at over 100db and maybe even over 120db which is the hearing loss range. At best, a suppressor brings the sound from 'hearing loss' to 'quite loud' for normal rounds. For a subsonic 22 round you're looking at something like 60-70db, take 20-30db off that and you get that sound that you hear in movies.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y ago
  Depends on the weapon and ammunition used. With subsonic ammunition silenced pistols can get pretty silent. I think I remember some combination that did sound surprisingly similar to the movie effect, but I don't know which one.
  - Ancapistani 4y ago
    Not sure why this is being downvoted - it's true. You're not going to get a centerfire rifle to be "Hollywood quiet", no matter what you do. You can get a .22 rimfire rifle or pistol down to the level that it sounds like an airgun. ... but it sounds like an airgun because it has about the same energy as an airgun.
slim 4y ago
> Firing a gun with no hearing protection is a pretty jarring experience That's perfect UX for the use case
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y ago
  If an intruder breaks into your home, (seemingly easily) overpowers you, and begins doing horrible things to your wife and wife's son, would you still have such a negative opinion about guns?
  - cycomanic 4y ago
    And the statistics on that are? Also if it's the police doing it, you're not allowed to defend yourself even if they don't announce/identify themselves.
    - thaumasiotes 4y ago
      > Also if it's the police doing it, you're not allowed to defend yourself even if they don't announce/identify themselves. You are allowed, it's just that they are allowed to kill you if you do.
      - dragonwriter 4y ago
        > You are allowed, it's just that they are allowed to kill you if you do. To be fair, in practice, they are allowed to kill you if you don't, too, they are just more likely to avail themselves of being allowed to if you defend yourself.
        jsiaajdsdaa 4y ago
        I like how you all are talking about this, when the number of people killed by police each year is in the hundreds, while the number of people who are assaulted every year by random strangers is in the hundreds of thousands.

A lot of people use silencers on their home defense guns. Firing a gun with no hearing protection is a pretty jarring experience, and a suppressor can help quite a bit with that.

kzrdude 4y ago

Does it make the laser "piow" noise in real life too? Or that's just the cinema effect

mwint 4y ago
No, it goes KABANG (instead of KABLAAAAAANG). There are a ton of YouTube videos of people testing this, they’re usually a pretty fun watch.
- Taek 4y ago
  Usually with no DB measurement. I couldn't find a single video of someone using silenced subsonic rounds with a decibel meter.
  - girvo 4y ago
    There’s a reason for that! Standard dB meters that most YouTubers have easy access to simply aren’t accurate enough for guns, even suppressed ones.
ch4s3 4y ago
A cinema effect, which is why they’re usually called suppressors. It lowers the decibel level of the sound enough that you can fire without ear protection and not risk damage to your hearing.
gmiller123456 4y ago
They are no where near as quiet as movies would have you believe. There are a lot of factors that come in to play as to how quiet they are, like if you're using sub-sonic ammo, the size of the supressor, barrel length, what the bullet hits, and more. Sadly, I'm sure a lot of their regulation has to do with how they're portrayed in movies rather than reality.
jethro_tell 4y ago
The stuff that's mimicked in movies would probably be something like a silenced 22 short round or maybe a subsonic 22LR round. The primary noise of a gun is the bullet breaking the sound barrier, the secondary noise is the actual powder burning. You can absorb some of that with a suppressor but if you shoot a round that goes faster than the speed of sound, you'll still get an audible and identifiable 'crack' A hand gun round will usually run you about 145-160db. There's a lot of variation here like barrel length, load, all of which influence speed which is also a factor. Take 30db off that with a suppressor and you're still looking at over 100db and maybe even over 120db which is the hearing loss range. At best, a suppressor brings the sound from 'hearing loss' to 'quite loud' for normal rounds. For a subsonic 22 round you're looking at something like 60-70db, take 20-30db off that and you get that sound that you hear in movies.
tgsovlerkhgsel 4y ago
Depends on the weapon and ammunition used. With subsonic ammunition silenced pistols can get pretty silent. I think I remember some combination that did sound surprisingly similar to the movie effect, but I don't know which one.
- Ancapistani 4y ago
  Not sure why this is being downvoted - it's true. You're not going to get a centerfire rifle to be "Hollywood quiet", no matter what you do. You can get a .22 rimfire rifle or pistol down to the level that it sounds like an airgun. ... but it sounds like an airgun because it has about the same energy as an airgun.

slim 4y ago

> Firing a gun with no hearing protection is a pretty jarring experience That's perfect UX for the use case

jsiaajdsdaa 4y ago
If an intruder breaks into your home, (seemingly easily) overpowers you, and begins doing horrible things to your wife and wife's son, would you still have such a negative opinion about guns?
- cycomanic 4y ago
  And the statistics on that are? Also if it's the police doing it, you're not allowed to defend yourself even if they don't announce/identify themselves.
  - thaumasiotes 4y ago
    > Also if it's the police doing it, you're not allowed to defend yourself even if they don't announce/identify themselves. You are allowed, it's just that they are allowed to kill you if you do.
    - dragonwriter 4y ago
      > You are allowed, it's just that they are allowed to kill you if you do. To be fair, in practice, they are allowed to kill you if you don't, too, they are just more likely to avail themselves of being allowed to if you defend yourself.
      - jsiaajdsdaa 4y ago
        I like how you all are talking about this, when the number of people killed by police each year is in the hundreds, while the number of people who are assaulted every year by random strangers is in the hundreds of thousands.