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Do silencers/suppressors have negative effects on a rifle?
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YES!!! they make them more expensive!!
Other than that, (and the Fed required paperwork, cost, and time) no.
They can change the point of impact, so a zero with the device in place is needed. Otherwise, there's no real effect in general, though SOME individual rifles might group better or worse, its due to the change in barrel harmonics, not the fact that its a silencer/suppressor.
Attach a bayonet to the gun and you can see a similar kind of change. Has nothing to do with it being a knife.