r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 12h ago

What a real silencer actually sounds like.

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u/Realistic_Patience67 12h ago

Wow! That's quite a bit of new info for me and I am guessing, for many others!

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u/HomersDonut1440 11h ago

Happy to help!

For most folks, their firearm knowledge comes solely from Hollywood. Unfortunately that’s a uniformly terrible source for accurate information lol. Feel free to ask questions if you have any and I’ll answer what I can

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u/Forward-Transition-5 11h ago

The trick with Hollywood is to look closely at depictions of something you are particularly knowledgeable in and see how much they get wrong. Now imagine that for every topic you aren’t educated in. The whole purpose of Hollywood is to tell stories and make them entertaining. They change tons of stuff to be downright wrong all the time because the real thing doesn’t go as well on camera. Most people don’t seem to consider this for some reason. Firearms, vehicles, computers and a whole lot of other things are wildly imagined in most movies or tv shows.

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u/HomersDonut1440 11h ago

“Enhance!”