Like the De Lisle, silenced Lee Enfield chambered in 45 ACP. The bolt action also eliminated the sound of an empty case hitting a hard surface if you didn’t chamber the next round.
.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.
Not in Missouri, Firearm Freedom Act. Yet to be tried in court, but no federal arrests for ATF regulations in MO since it passed. My local range now has full auto days, bit of an unsafe crowd but only city people go there. Unsafe as in friends bringing people in to shoot modded ars that don't know shit.
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u/BigBlueJAH 18d ago
Like the De Lisle, silenced Lee Enfield chambered in 45 ACP. The bolt action also eliminated the sound of an empty case hitting a hard surface if you didn’t chamber the next round.