Does your home defense gun have a silencer?

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AlexanderA said:
To answer the original question, I don't own any silencers. Overrated, IMO. I had one once, for a MAC II.
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Might consider revisting them. A lot has changed the last decade. Smaller, lighter and often cheaper cans today vastly outperform what was the "gold standard" back then, and mounting system advances with several industry compatibility standards have made them far more usable.
 
ClicheBro said:
I like to be considerate of my neighbors so I use a silencer.
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That would be about the silliest rationale for a suppressor I can imagine. Also, there's a difference between having a firearm with suppressor attached handy, and actually using it.

GEM said:
BTW, if someone breaks through the doors or windows, the rather loud and blaring alarm will wake up the neighborhood. Don't have that? Shame on you. So not bothering the neighbors is just an attempt to be funny. The reason should be your own hearing and then the practical utility, deployment, storage, etc.
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Yep. My alarm system going off will wake the dead in the cemetery a few miles down the road. Being able to hear the 911 operator you're talking to, and to communicate effectively with any family in the house would seem to be the primary reason for having a suppressed firearm in the home.

But effective locks and bolts on doors and windows, combined with layered security -- alarms, cameras, motion sensors, good lighting, dogs -- is far higher on the priority list for most of us than suppressors. All that and having a plan and some training as well.
 
MachIVshooter said:
That is one of the reasons I use them for recreational shooting, but not for home defense.

The home defense weapons wear suppressors so that If I'm ever forced to use them in that role, I'm still able to hear and see in the dark after firing.

Unsuppressed handguns in confined spaces are bad enough; touch off a short barreled 5.56 in a bedroom or hallway, you'll have hearing impairment for life.



Exactly.

While NFA stuff is a hassle with an unconstitutional tax and irritatingly long delay, "staying off lists" isn't a valid reason to deprive yourself of the worthwhile ones. In point of fact, the NFA registry is probably one of the least accurate and most unsearchable databases the government has, to the point that if you lose a tax stamp that was pre-eforms, you're not likely to be able to get a replacement.
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This is interesting. I just got my first suppressor (rimfire) but haven't done much with it yet. For some reason I never gave any thought to suppressors cutting down on flash, just noise. I have only shot it so far on a Ruger American Rimfire bolt action using CCI Quiets.
 
Surprised more people aren't relying on homemade ones. Years ago a college buddy and I bought some of "those" books, went out in the woods one night and....all were crude and clumsy but very effective, probably wouldn't hold to steady use, but....
 
BLACKHAWKNJ said:
Surprised more people aren't relying on homemade ones. Years ago a college buddy and I bought some of "those" books, went out in the woods one night and....all were crude and clumsy but very effective, probably wouldn't hold to steady use, but....
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If someone is using a home made one. Without a stamp and posts online. Then that person is a special kinda stupid. Kinda like the young lady who posted videos of herself blowing up toilets with pipebombs in the woods. She still in prison.
 
ClicheBro said:
I like to be considerate of my neighbors so I use a silencer.
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If I had reason to use a firearm in home defense I sure as heck want my neighbors to hear it....who would not?
The reason for using a silencer on your home defense gun is hearing protection for you and yours. Touching off a centerfire rifle round indoors will cause permanent hearing loss.

Plan2Live said:
No, for many reasons, not the least of which is staying out of a government database.
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Do you not have a Social Security #? A drivers license? Ever bought a gun from a gun dealer? Paid taxes?

:rofl:

mope540 said:
No. I have yet to see a 12ga. silencer
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You have to be kidding.

MachIVshooter said:
AlexanderA said: ↑
To answer the original question, I don't own any silencers. Overrated, IMO. I had one once, for a MAC II.
Might consider revisting them....
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Don't bother. AlexanderA is our resident silencer hater.:D
 
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trackskippy said:
I hate to tell you, but if youre here, or bought a gun, or ammo, etc, youre on a list somewhere.
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^^This bears repeating
Also, anyone who used a credit card, signed up for Selective Service, paid taxes, registered a vehicle . . .

Now, whether the same people who run the DMV are actually able to needle you out of the haystack is a separate question :D
 
If I ever have to shoot at an intruder with the 12 GA I want all the flash and noise I can get so the intruder and buddies will get it that what I am doing is ment to hurt them if I should miss, then hopefully convince them to leave ASAP.
 
Meeks36 said:
If someone is using a home made one. Without a stamp and posts online. Then that person is a special kinda stupid. Kinda like the young lady who posted videos of herself blowing up toilets with pipebombs in the woods. She still in prison.
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Not for blowing up toilets with pipe bombs.....she got probation on those charges. Google "Celia Alchemy Savage"
During that six month probation she was arrested on other charges.

That happened in 2012-13.
 
FL-NC said:
No. NFA items are always secured in a safe. My HD guns are reliable and easily replaced in the unlikely events of theft or being taken as evidence. A friend of mine's pistol has been held in evidence for over 2 years after an incident where he wasn't even charged, for example.
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We need a law that pays people rent on any firearm being held in evidence. $500 a day and they will hurry up and decide what needs to be done and get it back to the rightful owner.
 
I would like one. The paperwork and expense is a hassle. The NFA dealers in my state are all over an hour drive away.

My neighbors are far enough away that if I shoot a handgun indoors, they wont hear it even without a can. I want one because firing indoors is loud and I want to preserve what little hearing I have left.
 
NO! If I have to defend my home I want the neighbors to know and if I miss, maybe the noise will scare the bad guy away.
 
Mine are suppressed, yes, for reasons already stated.

Defending your home - in the case of invasion - there is no time to don your mechanical hearing protection.

Flash suppression.

45 ACP and 300 BLK.

If only they made a decent suppressor for a 12 ga pump. One that works like the one Anton Chigurh used in No Country For Old Men.

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dogtown tom said:
Not for blowing up toilets with pipe bombs.....she got probation on those charges. Google "Celia Alchemy Savage"
During that six month probation she was arrested on other charges.

That happened in 2012-13.
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Well my bad my memory isn’t great nowadays. But still how dumb. Recording doing something highly illegal. Or posting it on an open forum. Or posting it anywhere on the web for that matter.
 
A slight aside, if you are proponent of the RKBA, you should be writing your legislators and executive branch folks. You should be writing editorial commentary and letters to the local papers. If you could pull it off, you should be on TV proclaiming the RKBA!

Also, on the internet match'/competition sites that are easily found. Permits or licenses in 5 states at times. Write ups of AAR and the like on firearms sites. Published scholarly articles and presentations on firearms.

Since I've done all these, I'm not worried that the government knows. All those thrillers were our hero goes off the trail and/or gray man - yep, those ARE fiction.
 
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