Posted on 01/14/2017 5:41:04 AM PST by rellimpank
In "The Godfather," a Mafioso prepping young Michael Corleone to assassinate some rivals gives him a pistol for the job. After firing a bullet into the cellar wall, Michael complains, "Ow! My ears!" His friend says, "Yeah, I left it noisy. That way, it scares any pain-in-the-ass innocent bystanders away."
The Corleones would have had little interest in a bill that would allow gun owners to obtain silencers without the federal permits required since 1934. Some people like the deafening boom of a gunshot. Most shooters don't, and the National Rifle Association is pressing for enactment of the proposed Hearing Protection Act, which also has the endorsement of Donald Trump Jr., an avid trophy hunter.
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“Recreational shooters and hunters would like to have silencers because they don’t want to damage their hearing but dislike using ear protection. If the Occupational Safety and Health Administration had been around in the 1930s, gun rights lawyer Stephen Halbrook quipped to The Washington Post, it probably would have mandated their use.”
I’ve always wondered how you “leave it a little noisey”.
There are many ranges in Europe where suppressors are mandatory to deal with noise pollution.
I always wondered why Clemenza was teaching a former Marine, an officer and winner of the Navy Cross, how to shoot.
I want hearing protection devices on my guns and would like them at a cost less than the guns themselves. I’m hopeful legalizing them will drive costs down. Can’t happen soon enough!
Lol. Good point. I guess the Marines didn’t teach them how to badda bing badda bang.
“I’ve always wondered how you “leave it a little noisey”.”
A doctor buddy let me fire his legal silenced machine gun. It was very quiet in comparison to unsilenced but you could definitely hear the gun. There was the sonic boom of the ammo breaking the sound barrier, mechanical noise as the gun cycled, noise from the blowback gas escaping and a quieter but still noticeable noise from powder charges.
You would not hear any of this from a few hundred yards, but anybody inside that radius would definitely know a machine gun was being fired.
The horses, who normally mosey out to the far pasture, came over to see what we were doing.
A decent handgun silencer will reduce the report of a pistol from 140 dB to 110 dB. Hearing safe, but by no means silent.
Supressors were included in the Firearms Control Act of 1934 to stop game poaching. Because of the Depression, many people were forced to illegally hunt to feed their families.
Clemenza wasn’t teaching Michael to shoot. He was teaching him what do do and what to expect in the restaurant. Part of that would be hearing an unsilenced .38 indoors (not the same as usmc outdoor rand practice with a 1911). Indoor shooting noise can be painful. But usually the shooter in a life or death situation hears nothing. Not until much later when one notices that one’s ears are ringing.
Just repeal the unconstitutional laws already on the books, we don’t need new ones.
They seem to be a little noisier when they are attached to revolvers like in the movies. (eyeroll) I guess the fear is that all those CCW folks out there will sneak up on LEO’s.
—I’d be interested in documentation of that, having read a good deal on the origin of the National Firearms Act of 1934——never heard that—
I suffered from hearing loss, and can attribute it partially to target shooting without hearing protection as a young man (many years ago). I am ready to move to suppressors when this ridiculous “tax” on them is repealed.
—I think there is somewhat more noise escape around the cylinder-barrel junction than the ejection-port noise in semi-autos—
I think silencers would be nice. Even though I wear hearing protection, I still find the noise painful.
“I always wondered why Clemenza was teaching a former Marine, an officer and winner of the Navy Cross, how to shoot.”
Even Marine Officers have to re-qualify, annually. At least they did while I was active.
Also, at that stage in the movie, I believe that it was several years since he had been discharged.
Finally, remember, it’s Hollywood.
It is not a gun silencer. It is a catalytic converter.
There is hearing protection which actually amplifies sounds (like game sounds in brush) but shut down sounds beypnd a certain decibels.
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