wow.....only can benefit if your a criminal.....that means that if criminals can benefit from them, they must be the only ones who shoot guns at people ever. If you can't see a benefit to your bedside pistol having an unobtrusive suppressor that won't blow your families ears out if you ever had to use it in self-defense, then I don't know. I guess for you, there's no benefit. If you apply ear-pro as you draw your CC from concealment in one swift action when out on the street, then you need to teach us how. How about by-standers at a convenience store if your the guy that can put a stop to a violent robbery, you carry enough muffs on your belt for everyone?
I have shot suppressed .22's and didn't notice a blatant reduction in accuracy, maybe if it was rested down it would show it, but the added weight actually made a more stable shooter for me, albeit a bit unbalanced with a sparrow on a very light rifle. I was shooting within ten yards with a suppressed .45 and under 20 with a 300blk, so maybe it did decrease accuracy, I wouldn't have know since I was unfamiliar with those guns to begin with and at short distances.. Hunters can benefit greatly from suppression, although it prudent to always wear hearing protection and that's multiplied when shooting a hunting rifle, we have to be real and understand that sometimes a hunter is going to get that opportunistic shot that makes for application of earPro disadvantageous. A built-in suppressor on a CC gun that doesn't add length, absolutely I want one, I don't have time to put on my muffs/plugs that I keep in my fanny pack everywhere I go, and what if you needed to shoot from inside your car, although still potentially damaging even with a suppressor, surely suppression is going to be plus. well you say "if I am going to shoot someone, the last thing I care about is possible ear-damage after an SD event", and I agree, but if it's built into the gun and offers no dis-advantages other than maybe slightly increased weight, then why not have every possible tool you can have that gives you even a slight advantage to the health of your ear-drums? it doesn't hurt to have it, as long as it's more reliable than the little video they show. I also hear all the time that you still need hearing protection even with a silencer, and although I haven't shot very many, any pistol caliber at sub-sonic speeds I have shot were uber quiet, and although it may not pass the CDC test for damaging sound levels, I think from the shooters end it seems very quiet and I couldn't imagine it hurting my hearing from a few sporadic shots, especially in something like a well-built piston 300blk subS when the loudest thing was the action slamming back. but if you don't see the advantages, then don't buy it, but don't say that the ONLY reason could be to assassinate people, shadow-ninja style, not giving up your location, that's just foolishness. Anyhow, everyone knows that ninja assassins, being so many mercs for hire these days, have their own silencer manufacturing plants deep in the hills of Kentucky that make silencers that just go "phew phew phew". We have yet to get to their level of technology, so they don't care about our open-market suppressors.
