• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The suspect in the car was known to have at least one pistol with a suppressor. That being said, the guy was given a cursory pat-down and could not have had a suppressed firearm on him unless it was in him.

    A properly setup suppressed pistol fired from within a vehicle would be fairly quiet, but would sound nothing like an acorn bouncing off a car and you would know if you were hit.

    He has no business being a cop if he freaks out when an acorn bounces off a car and taps his vest. Luckily the suspect was not physically harmed and the cop resigned. Hopefully the suspect gets a nice payout from the city.

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      9 months ago

      I think I read that the noise reduction from a suppressor is actually pretty minimal, and it’s still in the same “incredibly painfully loud” ballpark as a regular gunshot

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        9 months ago

        Depends. As long as the bullet doesn’t break the sound barrier, a gun can be made reasonably silent with a good suppressor, to the point where the sound of the semi-automatic mechanism operating is louder than the gunshot itself. If the bullet is supersonic, then it will still be painfully loud.

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          9 months ago

          They did test them on mythbusters.

          For hand guns they work really well ans aren’t much louder then a nail gun.

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            9 months ago

            I’ve got a suppressed Ruger 10/22 (22LR) that’s about as noisy as a stapler.

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      9 months ago

      A properly setup suppressed pistol fired from within a vehicle would be fairly quiet

      A Glock 17 9mm pistol is 162 db, with a suppressor it is 126 db. That’s roughly as loud as a jackhammer. Not exactly what I’d call quiet.