Then we must all be arrested because EVERYONE has the materials around the house to make a suppressor.
Then we must all be arrested because EVERYONE has the materials around the house to make a suppressor.
I remember this post being mine. So I will answer it. Yes, everyone has the materials around the house, but ASSEMBLY of the components will get you jail Big Time. A silencer is a muffler. Do you know how loud a car engine is with no pipes other than an exhaust manifold? it is deafening. Speaking from experience.
Again I repeat, you can't get away from the supersonic *crack* of the bullet as it breaks the sound barrier. So all you do is delay detection, but you don't =avoid= detection. Maybe that is good enough, and maybe not.
Now you can make a muffler out of pillows. two or three against a victims head, point blank pushing the muzzle into the pillows, quite a f****ng mess, but not much in the way of noise. In the case of a pistol of the 9mm variety. So...everybody has a pillow. IOW, it is
*assembled* sound supressor. ILLEGAL. Big Time Jail Sentence.It is all at the *discretion* of the Judge and Jury. If a crime was committed using PILLOWS to silence the weapon, that's ANOTHER charge on top of 25 years to Life.
As a practical matter, not too many people walk around with pillows, so a heavy overcoat can be used, or the cushion from a chair, or whatever you have handy.
I will just WARN people, that even though the above sounds ridiculous, people are in JAIL because they were found to be in possession of the makings of a silencer in violation of The Law.
For a big gun, it only makes sense for a sniper. Because it is going to be freaking big. It is, after all, a muffler adapted to the pressure wave characteristics of the muzzle blast.
Lg
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