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Skans · April 23, 2014, 09:01 AM

I'm assuming that this can be done, but that the silencer might be too large or cumbersome to make it practical. When I say "silence", I mean bringing the noise down to that of a very well suppressed .22 subsonic, where most of what you hear is the gun's mechanism.

Has anyone been successful in bringing the sound level down on a 9mm (or 45acp) to such a level?

April 23, 2014, 09:01 AM	#1
Skans Senior Member Join Date: November 20, 2008 Posts: 11,132	What would it actually take to silence a subsonic 9mm? I'm assuming that this can be done, but that the silencer might be too large or cumbersome to make it practical. When I say "silence", I mean bringing the noise down to that of a very well suppressed .22 subsonic, where most of what you hear is the gun's mechanism. Has anyone been successful in bringing the sound level down on a 9mm (or 45acp) to such a level?