• Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That means those movie scenes where people are having a shootout with silencers in a library and nobody notices, or even in a crowded train station.

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m under no impression that the scene from John Wick is realistic (at least not with the way current firearms technology functions).

    When speaking about subsonic ammunition, the greatest impact is mainly how far away you can hear the weapon. Guns are loud, yes — something that cuts the sound down from 5 city blocks to 1 (hyperbole, I don’t know the exact numbers but I do know it considerably decreases how far the sound travels) is pretty fuckin quiet.

    And .22lr subsonic really is movie quiet, not that it matters - you’re practically shooting a suped up BB at that point.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      And .22lr subsonic really is movie quiet

      “Movie quiet” would be so quiet that you can shoot the gun next to someone in a library and nobody would look up. Nothing is that quiet. Even if you were dry firing with no rounds at all, the “click” would be so loud that it would draw a lot of attention.

      A realistic movie take on a gun with subsonic ammunition and a silencer would be one where if someone was shooting, people would be looking around for the source of the clicking / snapping sound but not worried about guns because the sound is so unlike a gun that it wouldn’t register to them as a gun.