5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)

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Originally Posted by Yournamehere

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Thanks for the post Yournamehere.

My response to No 1: He's right about the phew sound and tiny Suppressors being too small for their relative quieting power to a large weapon. But the author is full of shit on the rest. I've FIRED REAL SILENCERS (actually Suppressors). A LOT. Silenced 10/22 rifles sound like you're racking the action back and forth. Period. There is NO Report. You could dump a 30 round magazine into a stack of phonebooks in your bedroom and all you'd hear is the impact on the phonebooks. (use subsonic 22lr of course)

Also his crack about the decibels is also bullshit. It doesn't go down to just 120 decibels. I've fire MP5s (a full 30 round magazine) through a late model Gemtech suppressor and though I could hear the clackity clack of the bolt moving back and forth, it was pretty damned quiet. If I were firing from inside a car with the windows open, you'd hear NOTHING from 20 or more feet away. With the din of modern traffic or on the freeway, you WOULD hear nothing! And the new model Suppressors are pretty small compared to the monstrous two stage cans we had back in the 1970s/1980s.

Okay. Back to reading the list. Just had to call bullshit on the very first myth.


My Response to number 2: He's mostly right until he gets to this quote "In fact, a U.S. infantryman only carries 210 rounds total, which means a battle conducted with full-auto machine gun fire would be over in less than a minute even if you count the time it takes to switch magazines. Fortunately, they fire on full-auto so rarely that many of the military's rifles don't even have that capability." Well not quite true, at least for LMGs. I guess he also forgot that troops also carry Beta C Mags (which carry 100) if they want (some do but are rare) but back to overall ammo capacity: more commonly, troops have at least one guy carrying an M249 which has either a mini 100 round belt or the original 200 round belt (and another guy as ammo carrier). He also forgot about the M240 (or the M60 in older days) which again had multiple people carrying the ammo and thus would last longer than ONE freaking minute in a battle (not constant fire, but full auto bursts). The biggest problem with this sentence is that he states outright that most militaries of the world don't issue rifles that have full auto capability. WTF? Gee, and all this time I thought that my AR-15 under my bed had one less select fire setting than an M16 or M4, how stupid of me Correct me if I'm wrong, but once the Brits retired their L1A1 SLRs, all the world's major military branches had select fire rifles. Even if he considers 3 round burst to NOT be full auto (the ATF thinks otherwise), he is still wrong for most of the other world's rifles.