I have tinnitus, and the nearest thing I can compare it to is (for those of you that live where cicadas are) is the sound you hear when you go outside and hear multiple cicadas "singing" in the trees a couple of houses down. It's that way all the time. I'm fortunate that I've been able to just ignore it, for the most part, but it's ALWAYS there.
Also, and this is purely anecdotal, but I read an article perhaps 25-30 years ago (might have been by Ayoob?) talking about a DEA undercover agent that was in a car with 3 drug dealers, and got "made". They were going to kill him, so he pulled his short barreled .44 mag out and managed to kill all of them before they killed him. The result was, he was alive, but was permanently, totally deafened. Alive is better, but hearing loss from discharging a firearm in an enclosed area is permanently damaging.
This is the main reason I've considered a good (10-22 probably) autoloading .22lr for a HD weapon. Especially if it was reliable with sub-sonic stuff. I know, I know, a .22 will just bounce off bad guys, or just tick them off... at least that's what the big boys on the interweb all say... but I imagine that putting a "flurry" of .22 slugs into someone at living room distance would at least discourage them until I could brain them with a baseball bat. With a laser to make it easy to connect from nearly any position,
Also, and this is purely anecdotal, but I read an article perhaps 25-30 years ago (might have been by Ayoob?) talking about a DEA undercover agent that was in a car with 3 drug dealers, and got "made". They were going to kill him, so he pulled his short barreled .44 mag out and managed to kill all of them before they killed him. The result was, he was alive, but was permanently, totally deafened. Alive is better, but hearing loss from discharging a firearm in an enclosed area is permanently damaging.
This is the main reason I've considered a good (10-22 probably) autoloading .22lr for a HD weapon. Especially if it was reliable with sub-sonic stuff. I know, I know, a .22 will just bounce off bad guys, or just tick them off... at least that's what the big boys on the interweb all say... but I imagine that putting a "flurry" of .22 slugs into someone at living room distance would at least discourage them until I could brain them with a baseball bat. With a laser to make it easy to connect from nearly any position,