Recoil? Really?
I know I shock my head at that too. Then I thought a second about the Physics involved and *think* I know where he *may* be coming from.
As we know a 'silencer' acts by capturing some of the gases in the barrel, lessening the report we hear at the end of a 'silenced barrel' after a round is discharged. Which brings us to Newton's Third Law of Motion:
For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction.Ergo, if some gas is captured, and less leaves the barrel due to the silencer -- The Recoil at the butt end would be less as there's less gas to create that opposite reaction.
This *may* be what he was thinking -- and he's 100% wrong as an AK, AR, SKS, etc. use 'captured gases' to operate. And an AK's 7.62x39 sure does have a bit of a recoil. Not to mention the 7.62x51mm AR-10.
But hey, give him props for thinking. That's more than most pols do when proposing laws.
Plus Ive read silencers screw up the accuracy, there's no rifling, so much for hunting use. As to accuracy at close range I'd have to ask my friend 'Big Vinny' Gambone ;-)
I found out about Newton's Third Law of Motion when I was about seven. We had just learned about it in Elem School and we were also painting the living room. For 'fun' I jumped off the ladder, forward onto our couch. The ladder went in the opposite direction -- right through our window, and it was winter. I soon met my old friend, 'Mr Belt'. (Dam you Issac Newton!)
A suppressor weighs one to two pounds. Heavier rifle, less recoil.
A supersonic round sounds like you unhook an air hose and get that compressed gas release. The bullet goes along cracking the sound barrier as usual. A subsonic round makes bullet noise depending upon it’s shape. Get the shape right and it is only a low hum, barely audible and not identifiable.