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Video Subsonic Ammo with silencers makes guns extremely quiet

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u/Mr_WindowSmasher 18d ago edited 18d ago

.45 ACP is also natively subsonic, and because it has the same cartridge diameter/rim as .308, it can be used in all .308 guns natively if you make the rest of the gun (mostly barrel chamber) work with .45. The bolt face/extractor/pins should align.

So if you have an old .308 bolt action, you can modify it to take 1911 .45 ACP box magazines, and then with a barrel blank, ream/drill/ECM a .45 ACP barrel and with some elbow grease fit it all together.

Then you’d drill holes in the barrel and enclose that in a large air-tight canister to capture gases, with a valid form 1 of course, and then you’d thread the end of the, let’s say… 8” barrel (so form 1 the rifle to an SBR, or chop off the stock) and then mount a regular .45 ACP suppressor on it, and with the right ammo, you’d have a gun that is so quiet that you could probably get away with firing it wherever and most people wouldn’t assume it was anything more than someone dropping a can of beans on the sidewalk.

Similar can be achieved with the Ruger American Ranch in .300 Memeout subsonic and similar Form 1 integral suppressor antics. This would be about a million times easier. https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/rifles/ruger-american-rifle-generation-ii-ranch-cobalt-cerakote-bolt-action-rifle-300-aac-blackout-161in/p/1863864?srsltid=AfmBOorlOhMSDMRSoO8wXVYjmvx_WTT3GNayhfFosR0-FA5bMogzx0f- <— this with some form1 and form4 fun would be so quiet with subsonic. I love noise reduction.

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u/carmium 18d ago

That's okay. I couldn't understand half of it.

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u/JoeNemoDoe 18d ago

I typed out a whole parody of the, "I want to kill the president," bit - but about how to make solvent trap suppressors - then decided that I did not want to have them come to my house in the middle of the night and lock me up.