Re: suppressor forhomedefense...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TXtransplant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hmmm. I've killed a lot of big game animals with unsupressed centerfire rifles, but didn't ever notice my ears ringing until long after the shooting was over.
<span style="color: #FF0000">that delayed ringing is an indication that your hearing is getting damaged. Now, this big game you were shooting, was it in a 20X30 foot enclosed area ? Thought not. How about you go fire your M4 in your garage and let us know how it was for you.</span>
Far as flash goes, you are not going to be firing your pistol in the dark anyway. Period. How are you going to ID your target? Magic?
<span style="color: #FF0000">A ha ha hah</span>
If you shoot at night, you need a light--either a flashlight or you're going to turn your house light on. At which point the flash becomes a non-issue. And frankly most tactical ammo is low flash anyway. But the big thing is you are not going to be letting bullets fly at a human target unless you have PID'd it. Period. Unless dude is stabbing you already, in which case flash is the least of your worries.
<span style="color: #FF0000">There's no part of my house that's truly pitch black. I'm sure there's a sciency name for how your eyes adapt to the dark, if i wake up in the night needing a piss, i can get there and back without falling over anything. I can see fairly clearly as it goes and if you're over 5'5" and not my wife I will know it.
There's a downside to this though as your eyes are now more sensitive to sudden bright lights....so....
I have a light on my weapon. It's nicely focused forward, away from me. So I can use it for target ID in case my wife is really slouching.
Alas, muzzle flash doesn't behave itself as well. Might seem to in daylight, but in relative darkness, not the case. Don't know what kind of flash hider's on your rifle, but I'm pretty certain that, assuming you're not bump firing from the hip, that flash is going right up in front of your field of vision. Get your M4 again. Sit in your garage with the lights off until your eyes adapt. Now fire your m4. Bit unpleasant isn't it ? </span>
Anyway, the auditory trauma to your family of hearing 3 or 4 gunshots in the house is going to be nothing compared to having a house filled with cops, EMTs, blood stains and bullet holes in the furniture, watching you go to jail--which you certainly will, at least for a night--and waiting to hear if you're being indicted or not. Which will take months.
Better than going to your funeral, of course, but it's going to be a 12 month nightmare and probably cost you $10,000 at the minimum. Why complicate things by using ninja gear?
<span style="color: #FF0000">I want to protect all my senses as much as possible. You might not.
There's nothing "Ninja" about a suppressor, it's not because you're worried about waking the kids or the neighbours, or trying to conceal the firing of the weapon so you can ditch the body. It's about retaining as much of your hearing and vision as possible in a time of high stress. There may be one miscreant, there may be four. I'd like to retain as much awareness as possible.
The above will happen regardless. I want to give myself, and my family, every opportunity to be alive to participate in the ensuing shitstorm</span>
You're just making yourself look really suspicious. You're putting yourself in a situation in which very few people, other than on this message board, are going to have sympathy for you. </div></div>
<span style="color: #FF0000">Not sure that I give too much of a fuck how people on, or off message boards wish to direct their sympathy. Probably have bigger fish to fry </span>
