How do silencers on handguns work?
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suppressors work the same way your car exhaust muffler works. the combustion event (whether firing the of the bullet or the firing of the gasoline mixture) produces a big gaseous shockwave. this is the “bang”. in order to remove the shockwave, we have to give it somewhere to dissipate its energy and expand into. the suppressor has a series of baffles, just like a car muffler, where the energy is dissipated. this takes the sound level of a gun from 150+db (enough to make you instantly deaf) to around 130db (about a jet engine or jackhammer)
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