One thing that Hollywood always gets wrong is the sound of a “silenced” firearm. They’ll take a centerfire rifle pistol, or shotgun, slap a “silencer” on the end of it, and when the actor pulls the trigger, the noise of the shot is little more than a muffled cough.
Of course, that isn’t what happened in the real world if you’re shooting much more than a sub-sonic .22LR. People who have been exposed to “silencers” in the movies always seem surprised when they are near a suppressed weapon fired for the first time, and realize that is sounds just like …read more