Interesting Question

[FireArmFan]

All right, so there was a movie on tv, On deadly Ground. It's a steven seagal movie. Anyways, i was flipping through and I stopped on it for a bit. Seagal has a 1911 and he spots a guard. not wanting to blow his cover by firing, he sees a 2 liter soda bottle (I almost said "pop" bottle, but then i remembered we minnesotans are pretty much the only ones who say that), he empties it out, sticks the barrel of his gun in hole, and tapes the bottle on. he then proceeds to shoot the guard using the bottle as a suppressor. the bottom of the bottle goes flying off and then he takes the bottle off.

Anyways, my question is, does anyone know what would happen if someone actually did that? I dont think it would actually work quite the way it did for him, but just out of curiousity what would actually happen? Thanks

 

[Richard Simmons]

It might work for one shot though just how effective it would be depends on a lot of things. It is however illegal as it would consitute an unregistered silencer which will get you a really big fine and prison time. I believe they used to sell an adapter that threaded onto the barrel and had threads to accept a 2 liter bottle. That adapter could probably be registered as the silencer? Something on TV should stay on TV.

 

[Chipperman]

Yes it is an unregistered sound suppressor and will get you into big trouble.
I've seen footage from an SOT doing it, and it did not work very well.

 

[FireArmFan]

Thanks, BTW I had no intentions of trying it, i was just curious what the result would be.

 

[jakk55]

Actually a couple of years ago the BATF did tests on suppressors made from plastic bottles and stuffed with various items(toiletpaper, packing foam, insulation, etc.).

This was prompted not by their use on fire-arms but on paintball markers, which had become rampant and which they feared would become an excuse for a large amount of illegal suppressors being made.

They also tested them on a host of real fire-arms including handguns, rifles, SMGs.

In the end they found they were quite effective, more so actually for real fire-arms than paintball markers. They proceded to ban the making of them.