Posted on 02/04/2014 4:42:07 PM PST by aimhigh
we used to use them here for the same reasons most europeans use them. out of politeness and to save our hearing.
I don’t think the promise to sign off in return for campaign contributions would fly to well. You can promise anything, but you can’t “sell” that commitment IIRC...
They are proposing a bill to allow them for hunting.
The Russians made a revolver which did work well with a suppressor because the cylinder locked up against the barrel on trigger pull.
Delaware is a blue state they have silencers to spare.
A suppressor will: 1) completely hide muzzle flash at night, but 2) will not silence the sound of the self-loader’s normal operating cycle that is obscured by the muzzle blast of a conventional gun. [A bolt action will not be as noisy as a self-loader.]
The suppressor will drop the sound of the firearm so that the sniper becomes very difficult to detect. The muffled shot defies location by those being fired upon and that is the chief advantage of the suppressor — confusing the enemy about the location of a shooter.
I have two suppressors, licensed and everything. One is for .22 or .223 and the other is for .45 (but will also work for anything smaller, like .40 or even 9mm.).
Here’s the deal: you can’t silence a supersonic bullet. But when you suppress it, it becomes very difficult to determine which direction it came from.
A .22LR is subsonic from any barrel less than about 14 inches or so in length. The less powder, the less the bang and the more it can be suppressed. A regular .22LR still makes a pronounced BANG even with a suppressor, but it is quiet enough to shoot in an indoor range without hearing protection. Same with the .45. But it isn’t quiet. It’s still loud but it isn’t loud enough to cause hearing damage.
If you really want to quiet a cartridge down, it takes really soft loads that skirt just below the sound barrier, and use just enough powder to get them there.
One of the important effects of a suppressor is that it changes the nature of the gunshot sound such that it is just a softened noise that doesn’t sound so much like a gunshot anymore. It’s still a thump. But not a gunshot sound.
The only downer of the story is how our legislators, the very people we entrust to enact laws that affect our very lives, are people of such low intellectual curiosity and real world experience outside their cushy desk jobs that they have to learn about suppressors like third graders on a field trip.
I saw a video by Hickock45 shooting one of those revolvers it was impressive against a regular revolver!
Apparently he did no research about guns at all, despite how prominently they figured in his stories.
The safety on my Webley revolver is noisy, so easing it off would be impossible.
Good idea.
...Wanna make a real big splash? I mean more money and publicity than you’d know what to do with? Do the same with approval letters under 922(o).
You don't have to tell me about it! I'm a septuagnerian with significant hearing loss and continuous LOUD tinnitus -- from shooting un-suppressed handguns when I was in my early twenties.
Basically guarantee non-enforcement of any law relating to the home manufacture of machine guns or machine gun parts IOW?
No matter what, Fudds or antis: WE LOSE.
Like the TV show "Chuck", which had so much promise because of the awesome Adam Baldwin, shows a cartoon EVERY SHOW during the intro of an ENTIRE CARTRIDGE (rim, bullet, and all) coming out of the end of a revolver.
Most TV shows have stupid gun stuff. Like the stupid "hammer cocking" sounds they play when the actor points a GLOCK at the bad guy!
Like the stupid "rack" sound they play when a SEMI-AUTOMATIC (not pump) shotgun is pointed by an actor at a bad guy!
Grates on my nerves.
Called a gas seal revolver. My Mosin Nagant is one. Trigger pull on double action is like 10 or 15 lbs because it has to pull the cylinder away from the forcing cone to rotate.
Better.
Form 4 approvals. ‘86 cutoff doesn’t apply.
There is reason to believe this is happening in secret for the well-connected. Time to bring it to all law-abiding citizens.
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