US makers sell 1/4 million silencers per year

[prison/con.net]

I'd bet that most go to cops, troops or overseas, but still, 100,00 new "cans" every year (and growing every year) means that they are going to mount up. Maybe one day soon, we'll get them off of the Federal registry and when that happens, they will sell by the 10s of millions (mostly in .22lr) . There is no reason to have a loud gun, and you can always just remove the "can". A .22 silencer can make the gun so quiet that you'd swear that you'd dryfired an empty gun. you can hear the bullet hit a rabbit at 50 yds. That's IF you have used subsonic ammo and pinned shut the autoloader's bolt, of course. If you let the action cycle in the normal fashion, you get ejection port pop, which is audible to maybe 60 yds, in the open, on a quiet night. that beats hearing the 22 at half a mile or more, eh?

 

[prison/con.net]

A current maker is reviving Walsh's design, with many improvements. He's offering a brass piloted drill bit, so that you can counterbore and tap your guns' muzzle with female threads. That's going to let any owner mount his can on any of his (or his friends') .22's, so they can try it out. Once they do, they'll buy one for themselves

 

[whitehall]

Try a remedial class in math. The last figure I was able to come up with is 18,000 units manufactured in the U.S. The post belongs in another forum anyway.

 

[prison/con.net]

the folded, spindled, annealed copper screenwire for walsh's design is formed into the classic "donut" baffle shape inside of a simple mallet powered "tool kit. Its just a couple of pcs of tubing, a bolt, and a couple of washers, but it works slick as snot to give you a really efficient, durable, perfectly shaped baffle. Just stack half a dozen of the into the .22 can and apply the internal snapring and washer that hold the guts of the can inside of the tube .

It takes about an hour to make the forming kit, and another hour to make and mount the can. The can has no effect on the grouping ability or reliability of the gun to which it is attached, but it might shift the POA of the bullets on target, maybe w" at 25 yds. Not enough for most to notice it on a pistol, but they will notice on a rifle. So you'll have to either "hold off' or adjust the sights between using the gun with and without the can mounted on it.

 

[prison/con.net]

the 2 hardest parts to make, the male threaded endplug and the brass piloted drill bit, are set to be for sale about 1 August, I am told. This design beats the oil filer design all to hell. You can have simple 5" x 1" tube for a .22 handgun that makes it BB gun quiet and lets you use the sights. w 6" long works on rifles. Make them 2" longer and they can be made from 3/4" PVC pipe, whch means that you don't need a lathe or welder to make them. they can also be stopped on quick and easy, destroying them. the feds have to prove that the thing creates an audible reduction in sound and PVC pipe that's cracked in 10 places can't do that. Also, the smashed bafffles won't let the bullet pass thru the can cleanly.

 

[pwjohn]

I'd bet that most go to cops, troops or overseas, but still, 100,00 new "cans" every year (and growing every year) means that they are going to mount up. Maybe one day soon, we'll get them off of the Federal registry and when that happens, they will sell by the 10s of millions (mostly in .22lr) . There is no reason to have a loud gun, and you can always just remove the "can". A .22 silencer can make the gun so quiet that you'd swear that you'd dryfired an empty gun. you can hear the bullet hit a rabbit at 50 yds. That's IF you have used subsonic ammo and pinned shut the autoloader's bolt, of course. If you let the action cycle in the normal fashion, you get ejection port pop, which is audible to maybe 60 yds, in the open, on a quiet night. that beats hearing the 22 at half a mile or more, eh?

It's about time they start putting mufflers on those fucken things. They're way to loud. Could you imagine how noisy it would be if we didn't make mufflers mandatory on cars & trucks ?