1. Whisper Quiet Silencers
It's all come down to this, the final showdown. Having dispatched of the nameless baddies, the protagonist shuffles his way toward an impossibly evil antagonist. Tensions build, suspense mounts, and as the villain is about launch an attack, we hear a faint "phew." The bad guy's face turns white before he falls over dead, and we see a silenced pistol, smoking in our hero's hand. The villain never knew what hit him. The final shot was never above a whisper. First, those long tubes that fit on a gun's barrel aren't usually called "silencers" but "suppressors," and for good reason. The sound of a bullet being fired is exceptionally loud. It's an explosion, after all, and it's hard to make an explosion stay quiet. A suppressor only drops the sound of a gunshot by
a few dozen decibels. That may sound like a lot, but a typical gunshot hovers around 140dB, meaning even with a suppressor, you still won't be able to have target practice in a library.
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