Real world suppressors are not like the movie silencers, where you see a bad guy screw one onto the barrel of a revolver, then kills someone with just a nearly-silent "pfft."
A decent handgun silencer will reduce the report of a pistol from 140 dB to 110 dB. Hearing safe, but by no means silent.
9 posted on 01/14/2017 5:52:32 AM PST by Yo-Yo
( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)