Glock 19 With Silencer - AUSTIN, Texas — Let's get this out of the way now: movies and television consistently get mufflers completely wrong. Ways to use silencers on screen - often stuck in the barrel of a submachine gun, submachine gun or big-bore pistol, to mow down bad guys, while other, blissfully unaware bad guys quietly sip tea at the end of the corridor. It is not possible. Silencers are not more accurately (correctly) called "suppressors".
Here's a first-hand account after a few hours with Silencerco's Jason Schauble, where we fired hundreds of rounds of various sizes and shapes through a variety of different guns. Except for small-caliber ammunition fired from carefully designed weapons, suppressions are nowhere near silent. They are bloody loud.
Glock 19 With Silencer
And again later. This is another thing that Hollywood has gotten completely wrong. Heroes can routinely fire off hundreds of rounds in an encounter without earplugs and chat right away. As anyone who has fired a gun before can tell you, it doesn't take a few shots at close range to temporarily deafen you without hearing protection—guns are really loud.
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Companies that make and sell suppressors are fighting an uphill battle. These products are the perfect assassination tools for secretly killing people, and they work against the popular belief that there are many other reasons to own one besides "secret conspiracy" or "the takeover of Nakatomi Plaza". But after a few hours of shooting, we got the impression that suppressors are useful even for casual gun owners. Even if you're not a gunsmith, technology that steals much of the gun's reporting noise is fascinating.
We have reached the rank because of this technology. This is obviously not "Guns Technica" and we don't often look for advancements in firearms. However, given the opportunity to test suppressors on dozens of different guns, it was very difficult to know how they performed. So we went to Austin and met Schauble, who brought the original smorgasbord of guns and silencer co-manufactured suppressors and explained to us how it all works.
If Jason Schauble's name sounds vaguely familiar, it's not the first time Ars has met him. Schauble is the former CEO of Tracking Point, a company that makes high-precision (and very expensive) Linux-powered firearms. We last wrote about Tracking Point back in August, when we got some hands-on time with the company's pre-production AR-15 carbines. At the time, we noted that Schauble had left the company a few months earlier, but didn't know where he was going.
He moved across town and joined the company, working as chief revenue officer at Silencerco's Austin, Utah branch. His previous experience at Remington and Advanced Armaments Corp. (not to mention active duty in the Marine Corps) seems to have prepared him well for the job. At the same range we shot with the tracking point – when we moved to Best of the West – a long table was set up with guns and suppressors.
Glock 19 With Suppressor And Laser/light [1600x1200][oc]
Silencerco is an under-the-radar major player in the industry. Although they employ only 125 people, the company has 40 percent of the domestic suppressor market, and is therefore responsible for a large portion of the more than 100,000 suppressors purchased in the United States each year. The company has been selling suppressors since 2009, a growing market. According to marketing materials provided by SilencerCo, suppressor sales in the U.S. are growing 20 percent annually. In 2014, Silencerco plans to sell about 40,000 devices to customers ranging from private individuals to local law enforcement and the military.
Silencerco was originally founded by two fellow photographers and audio engineers, Josh Waldron and Jonathan Schulte. The pair became frustrated with the process of purchasing suppressors and the lack of customer service from existing suppressor manufacturers (so they decided to start their own company to do better). One of the first products the duo designed and built was the Osprey Suppressor - a non-round "eccentric" suppressor that stood apart from the traditional cylinder suppressor lineup. Here, "eccentric" means that the hole through which the bullet passes does not pass through the center of the suppressor. Silencerco made this choice because most cylinder suppressors sit next to the front sights of the gun. The Osprey design avoids this by placing most of it under the bore, making the gun's sights usable.
Enlarge / Eccentric Osprey suppressor, above, and more traditional round Octane, below. The shape of the Osprey keeps it away from the pistol.
Lee Hutchinson Lee is senior technology editor at Ars, overseeing gadget, automotive, IT, and gaming/culture content. He also knows about enterprise maintenance, security and human spaceflight. Lee is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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