I remember when I was in grade school, this kid said his older brother had an AK-47 with a silencer and they shot it off in an alley and it just sounded like “a woosh of air”.
When I eventually learned that “silencers” merely reduced rather than nearly eliminated sound (like on TV) I remembered that kid’s story and knew he was full of it.
If you load for a subsonic muzzle velocity and can disable the action, no one will hear you out at your salt lick.
Supersonic and subsonic ammo through a suppressor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icrm9m9bRpY
Note the action noise in this video.
That kid was a slippery Cossack slut.
RE “Silencers”:
Unless you’re using subsonic ammunition, they don’t “silence” anything. They reduce the dBs.
The more apt term is Suppressor, and they’re already legal in most states of the Union; just regulated by your friendly neighborhood F-Troop. Need a 200 buck Tax Stamp on a form, which you need to keep with you when the evil little bastard out and about at the range.
They’re MANDATORY in Finland; they have a pretty good gun culture up there, and because of population density, they like to keep the noise down.