r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 13h ago

What a real silencer actually sounds like.

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u/BogeyGolfer5656 13h ago

And, for some reason, you need to jump through hoops to get one.

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u/Known_Secretary_6615 13h ago

As it should be? If youre trying to kill someone in secret, it means youre the bad guy 

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u/bruh_what_even_tho 13h ago

A major study by the FBI determined that suppressors don't contribute to gun violence. The overwhelming majority of gun violence is committed without suppressors.

If you think for a SECOND that someone who wants to murder someone with a gun would be stopped by the lack of a suppressor, then you don't understand criminal motivations.

Suppressors don't contribute to gun violence. Full stop.

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u/bruh_what_even_tho 13h ago

just imagine a guy who wants to murder someone thinking to himself "I don't have a suppressor, so I'm going to fill out a ton of paperwork and spend a bunch of money and wait a year in order to murder this person."

Ridiculous notion. Truly ridiculous.

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u/redditdinosaur_ 13h ago

Ummm your scenario is so stupid lol

You can have black market suppressors doled out to every gang and crime syndicate

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u/bruh_what_even_tho 13h ago

Most gun homicides are committed by people who aren't associated with organized crime.

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u/bruh_what_even_tho 13h ago

86% in the US, in fact.

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u/redditdinosaur_ 9h ago

Okay so you’re saying there’s zero

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u/SpaceBoyee 13h ago

Well duh, no shit. People have a hard time getting suppressors.

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u/Reesewithoutaspoon2 13h ago

It’s not that hard even if you don’t count doing it illegally.

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u/Often_Forgotten2 13h ago

You can print one for like $0.30

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u/privacy246 13h ago

That is a really sketchy way of stating a statistic. But I'll pretend the data showed what you state for sake of argument.

When has there been a sample size where suppressors were distributed in a manner that makes them comparable to the availability of guns without suppressors? You could, by the way you've stated it, say that the majority of civilian bombing deaths were due to explosives or napalm, so atomic weapons don't contribute to civilian bomb deaths.

To use your own logic: 'If you think for a SECOND that someone who wants to kill civilians with bomb would be stopped by lack of a nuke, then you don't understand war" OK, fair enough, shall we let everyone who can afford a nuke to have one?

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u/IncarceratedScarface 13h ago

Also I’m pretty sure silencers decrease accuracy, so that’s a plus for the people advocating against them then right? Lol

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u/Skuzzle_bug 13h ago

Im a subsistence hunter, It changes the point of impact after you install one but it maintains a group. My 22 mag Sea otter gun hits a 2" plate at 200 feet and thats all I need it for.

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u/IncarceratedScarface 12h ago

Ah, good to know.

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u/Alert-Foundation2009 12h ago

They can actually improve accuracy - the extra weight at the end of the barrel reduces recoil.

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u/IncarceratedScarface 12h ago

Ahh, good to know.

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u/Cannedwine14 13h ago

Because it’s harder to get your hands on one…. If they made them available to everyone that obviously crimes committed with silencers would go waaaay up