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and... most importantly... a suppressed firearm is still not quiet! - and is not hearing-safe to fire indoors!

Hollywood and video games have convinced the population a suppressor is impossible to hear and you can shoot people in public without anyone knowing. Ridiculous, to say the least.




To be fair, Hollywood expects you to be shooting subsonic ammunition at close range.


Even then, it's still obvious a gun was fired. The John Wick scene in the subway is so laughably absurd, but so many people think that's what happens when you screw on a can.




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