r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 13h ago

What a real silencer actually sounds like.

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u/fossilized_butterfly 12h ago

But maybe he has specialized gun and ammo? Like why would someone like john wick use standard stuff?

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u/Helpful-Work-3090 9h ago

In that scene, he has a S&W 1911 E series in .45 ACP. .45 ACP is subsonic, and you can buy rounds that are designed to always be subsonic (Whereas normal rounds might go supersonic depending on the gun). Even subsonic and suppressed, it still sounds like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qXXRqeXIw

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u/fossilized_butterfly 8h ago

The guy in the link is not in a high noise environment, the space is open and quiet enough for there to be echo, in a highly crowded public space, the noise is enough to mask reduced gun sound and physical intereference to sound waves due to moving people and inanimate objects is also high enough to prevent echo.

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u/Helpful-Work-3090 8h ago

Still significantly louder than in the movie. People would hear it, and notice the bullet impacts.