The lowly .22 caliber long rifle round is becoming a favorite among snipers. Professional assassins (usually thugs working for organized crime) have long favored using .22 caliber (5.56mm) pistols for their work. While not a powerful round, if you shoot someone up close with a .22 caliber pistol several things are noted.
Thugs working for the mob aren't usually good enough to put a placed shot where it needs to go with a .22 which is through an eyeball. MOSSAD TRAINS FOR THIS, and so do a lot of other organizations, but not the mob. ALSO when was the last time you saw a hitter using a 5.56mm round in a handgun? That's the .223 Remington round, folks...what is used in the M-16! Somebody not familiar with guns, nomenclature, and ballistics wrote this article...which is another reason to discount the entire thing.
1- The victim is dead if you shoot him in the head, whish is what pros usually aim for (as these guys like to say, "two in the head and you know he's dead.")
Ooooooh I LIKE that little turn of the phrase...I might use it as my tagline! But two in the head...HAS to mean two through the eyes with a .22 or even two into the cranial vault (the forehead) with a bigger caliber like a 9mm subsonic.
2- There is hardly any sound if you use a silencer, and not much even if you don't.
Hey a .22LR will still crack the sound barrier and produce some noise. But a little .22 short is really quiet, but that brings back the issue of shot placement, and skill.
3-A 22 caliber pistol is small, even with a silencer. That makes it easier to conceal, and easier to dispose of.
Maybe, but any silenced pistol that is not factory made is going to be a BEAR to aim effectively because there will not be a decent sight radius to take advantage of the legthened barrel. In fact there might not even be a sight picture to speak of because (again assuming a "homemade hushpuppy") the "can" tends to be a larger diameter than the original weapon's specs. Something manufactured by Gem-Tech for a specific gun and registered etc is a different story!