Machineguntony
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A discussion, just for fun, because the NFA forum is my favorite forum.
What I mean by 'cool" is that they're somewhat of a novelty, or that we see them in movies, and we want one.
For me, I find a suppressor somewhat impractical. I think they add extra weight to a gun, extra length, and they block the sights, unless you have high sights. I purchased a handful of silencers a couple of years ago, and now they're just paperweights. I use them only when I want to take a cool, James Bond-ish looking pic with my gun.
People like to argue that suppressors have a utilitarian purpose because they protect against hearing damage. Not really. If anything, use of suppressors may actually increase hearing damage. The reason being that many people who use suppressors wrongly believe that if you use a suppressor, you do not need hearing protection (and I see this phenomenon now with suppressors becoming more common). A suppressor will only bring the decibels down to about 120 dcB. Anything above 85 decibels will cause hearing damage: http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/pages/noise.aspx
To the shooter, who is using a suppressor, it may not sound as loud as a regular unsuppressed gun blast, but, no doubt, there is hearing damage that is being cumulatively accrued by the shooter.
Don't get me wrong, I like them a lot, and I encourage people to buy them. But if the ATF took them off the NFA list, I, and I suspect many others, would look at them and say...meh, everyone has one now.
So the pretty girl is all T&A, and nothing inside. Who is going to admit to falling in love with the girl? Step right up.
What I mean by 'cool" is that they're somewhat of a novelty, or that we see them in movies, and we want one.
For me, I find a suppressor somewhat impractical. I think they add extra weight to a gun, extra length, and they block the sights, unless you have high sights. I purchased a handful of silencers a couple of years ago, and now they're just paperweights. I use them only when I want to take a cool, James Bond-ish looking pic with my gun.
People like to argue that suppressors have a utilitarian purpose because they protect against hearing damage. Not really. If anything, use of suppressors may actually increase hearing damage. The reason being that many people who use suppressors wrongly believe that if you use a suppressor, you do not need hearing protection (and I see this phenomenon now with suppressors becoming more common). A suppressor will only bring the decibels down to about 120 dcB. Anything above 85 decibels will cause hearing damage: http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/pages/noise.aspx
To the shooter, who is using a suppressor, it may not sound as loud as a regular unsuppressed gun blast, but, no doubt, there is hearing damage that is being cumulatively accrued by the shooter.
Don't get me wrong, I like them a lot, and I encourage people to buy them. But if the ATF took them off the NFA list, I, and I suspect many others, would look at them and say...meh, everyone has one now.
So the pretty girl is all T&A, and nothing inside. Who is going to admit to falling in love with the girl? Step right up.