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Posted on 01/10/2013 3:30:52 PM PST by Second Amendment First
Then why not use supersonic ammo with a silencer? Isn’t it all about em vee square?
My tagline.
“I think the federal restrictions on silencers is a leftist war on the hearing disabled.”
It was passed during the Great Depression due to game wardens worries about poachers more easily evading them if silencers were not outlawed..
In Europe, silencers are readliy available. However, telescopic sights are restricted, due to fears of snipers.
Hint to gun grabbers: America has tens of millions of scoped rifles owned by skilled marksmen.
1) the action. That is not very loud.
2) the chemical explosion of the powder. That's what suppressors supress.
3) supersonic crack of a bullet as it exceeds the speed of sound. A suppressor does nothing for that significant noise.
/johnny
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“...and do they even make one that could survive a 25-06, 220 swift or .222 for more than a dozen shots...”
Just about any cartridge you can name can be equipped with a silencer.
It depends on the design. Suppressors with steel or copper wool in the baffles will not stand more than a few rounds of fire from a high powered rifle. But the kind with baffles similar to those used in automobile mufflers will last many thousands of rounds.
Even in Europe silencers are common.
There is a threaded adapter that fits on your barrel and on the filter. I have read that if you are shooting a .22, it will last you many thousands of rounds, but if you are shooting a higher powered handgun or rifle, the filter will last only a few. You then have to send the silencer back to the manufacturer and THEY will replace the filter for $25. I have read that is because once the oil filter is attached to the adapter, it is legally a part of the suppressor and the owner cannot modify it.
No. A bullet usually doesn't reach maximum velocity until it has exited the muzzle. Not all rounds are effective at subsonic velocities, so their use is impractical with some guns. But the supersonic "crack" will seem to occur away from the gun which provides some tactical advantage to the shooter.
“But the supersonic “crack” will seem to occur away from the gun....”
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That sounds logical as the bullet will reenter subsonic speed because of air friction.
Well, there you go. As Joe Biden Said “If it just saves one kid’s hearing”....
Tell us about it. How does it shoot? Do you really need that big scope on the top?
Anyone able to get the comments to open? Neither my Mac or laptop PC would open them. This moron needs to be set straight.
Oops! Sorry.
This author needs to get out of his NYC apartment more.
I am looking at this the way banks have tellers with silent panic buttons that notify those with guns there is a hold up in progress. I agree that the more teachers with guns, the better. But not all teachers will get guns and the training to use them. I say give the panic buttons to the teachers who are not equipped with guns. Those in the immediate area with guns can still take out the shooter.
“Isn’t it like belt and suspenders?”
I know a guy that has a silencer on a 22 rifle and when he shoots a long rifle bullet you hear the click of the firing pin but you hear the report from the target when the bullet hits and you get the sonic boom from the target not the gun, just like a jet breaking the sound barrier.
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