Marines Considering Silencing All Small Arms – IOTW Report

Marines Considering Silencing All Small Arms

GunWatch:The Marine Corps is considering suppressing all small arms. Military organizations have historically been slow to adopt new technologies. They have been slow to adopt optical sights, which were overwhelmingly adopted by sportsmen long before they become common for ordinary soldiers. In the U.S. that was during the first Gulf War.

Suppressors have been commonly used by sportsmen around the world for decades long before widespread adoption by any military. The United States is the exception, due to irrational regulation.   read more

16 Comments on Marines Considering Silencing All Small Arms

  1. Reduction in hearing loss and improved communication.
    Well that and they don’t flinch when they squeeze (press) the trigger. I can’t believe the hand gun of choice is the Glock 19.

  2. Shot with Rangers, one SEAL, and a couple MARSOC. I got to tell you with a rifle the Marines are hell on wheels. None of them understand the Pistola. Please don’t hammer me if you were in the Army. Just sayen.

  3. If your far enough away; the ‘taget’ hears nothing, I always put in foam plugs if there is time.
    Really nice to hear from Brad. Wish he would blog about his gun knowledge.
    Or maybe write a book.

  4. In the last few days I’ve seen multiple reports that NRA and GOA are preparing 3 priority bills for Pres Trump:
    1. National CCW reciprocity
    2. End to all specific firearms bans
    3. Suppressor availabity w/o restrictions.

    It’s a new day in AMERICA.

  5. The only thing holding back suppressed weapons, articulating body armor, and better boots has been useless seat warmers in Washington. Everything has been allocated here and there away from the individual war fighter. Vehicles, rockets, and hammers have always been more important to the politicians than what the grunt needs or wants. I can tell you from experience a suppressed rifle, which is not silenced by the way, will help you communicate and save your hearing … huh? … what?

    Time to get it right dang-it!

  6. It’s my understanding that this can only be accomplished with subsonic ammo. If so, the range is seriously diminished.
    Is this true?
    You can buy a suppressor/silencer but need to acquire a federal permit do so. Plus you probably have to make modifications to the weapon that it will be used on.

  7. How much muzzle velocity will be lost? Since the trend has been towards smaller projectiles at higher velocity will this mean a reversal back to the days of bigger, slower bullets?

    Opps, I now see sig94 asked the same thing, so I’ll let this stand to reinforce his question: What do we give up? There’s always something.

  8. Sig–all that really needs to be done is for the muzzle to be threaded to accept the suppressor. Most military small arms are already threaded for the use of a flash hider, muzzle brake, etc. Some of the better suppressors will work by fitting over the flash hider, kind of like a plug and play option. Ammo doesn’t need to be subsonic, the loudest noise is due to muzzle blast, which the suppressor kills. Without subsonic ammo, there will only be a crack as the projectile breaks the sound barrier.

  9. Modern suppresses have little effect on point of impact, sub or supersonic. One big problem is they boost the temp of a rapidly fired gun way up. Not sure how these would work out on an M4 or equivilant weapon.

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