Posted on 01/14/2016 4:15:28 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Hiram Percy Maxim was born to Hiram Stevens Maxim, the inventor of the Maxim machine gun. In 1901, the young Maxim developed two inventions parallel with each other because they were basically the same product in concept and design. His Maxim Silencer Company produced both the automobile muffler and the firearm silencer in 1902. The silencer was basically a metal tube containing a series of curved baffles that allowed gas from the cartridge to be released more gradually to form sound waves with less dramatic peaks. It was patented in 1909. Iterations of his car muffler went on to become standard factory equipment for every street-legal automobile sold—and were even government-mandated—while his firearm silencer became unreasonably regulated in 1934 with the National Firearms Act (NFA).
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#1: So the BATFE can draw a circle around your house on their white board.
I’d be interested if there were more than one assailant.
The internal structure of the Maxim is very similar to my AWC MK9A.
...it's a red-tape-laden process to purchase a silencer, and it's not inexpensive...
Two damned good reasons not to own one.
I'm not giving the jack-booted thugs any more of my money for no good reason than I absolutely have to.
I cannot now, nor could I ever think of one good reason to limit the sale of suppressors or "silencers", as the JBT's like to call them...with the intent of making the stupid liberal public scared.
Of course, Hollywood and their stupidity tends to exacerbate the situation, with their "pfft" foley effects, which we all know is BS.
If ISIS comes down the street and you are able to drop one, guess, what, that sound signature just made you a dead man.
In before “It’s not a silencer it’s a suppressor.”
Just like guns, the more people who own them the better off all owners will be. Who cannot see this simple fact?
And simply owning a suppressor does not allow the ATF stop by for a spot check as is rumored on the net. They need a warrant just like anything else.
I won’t be the only one on the street taking out zombies. Multiple sources for them to be concerned with detecting.
Down pillow. The best silencer EVAH!
I am pretty certain they already know I own guns and ammo.
And they are? 1=? 2, 3, 4, 5?
By the time I was 21, I had lost most of my high frequency hearing. It caused me to fail my draft physical in 1969.
At the time I did not realize how damaging firing pistols and revolvers could be. For the last 45 years or so, I have always used hearing protection.
Silencers should be easily and cheaply available for no other reason than to protect our hearing.
Imagine the (justified) outrage if people were forced to drive without car mufflers.
Actually, in original the patent it really IS a silencer.
Love the vintage ads!
I suppressed my CZ-75B. Why? Because I like playing the James Bond theme every time I break out that bad Mer Fer!!!!
They are nice but irrelevant if you are using hypersonic ammo.
That “crack” from 5.56 as it leaves the muzzle is unmistakable and a suppressor can’t fix that. If you use subsonic ammo a suppressor is great and gives a nice blip that doesn’t travel. Not having any experience with a suppressor on a pistol I can’t speak to the advantage/disadvantage against muzzle velocity, but assume the same principles apply.
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