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- From: Jim Heath <jheath@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu>
- Subject: Re: Sonic Sniper Locater
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:51:18 GMT
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- From Jim Heath <jheath@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu>
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- >From article <C15yLA.KrJ@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, by Adrian Hurt <adrian@cee.heriot-watt.ac.uk>:
- >
- > From Adrian Hurt <adrian@cee.heriot-watt.ac.uk>
- >
- > In article <C0syvK.66v@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> dans@bigbird.llnl.gov (Dan Simkins) writes:
- >>
- >>I find your contention that rifle silencers work by decelerating the bullet
- >>to subsonic speeds very difficult to believe. If you are sure you are right,
- >>I would appreciate references showing this to be the case.
- >
- > I don't know how accurate it is, but there's "The Armory" by Kevin Dockery, a
- > book containing a little information on a lot of guns and ammunitions and
- > intended mainly as a role-playing game sourcebook. Here is what it says
- > about the Sterling L34A1, a silenced version of the Sterling SMG.
- >
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- Beg your pardon, but the Sterling is a machine _pistol_ (submachine gun),
- not a rifle. I think silencers slow the bullet a bit, but won't make it
- subsonic unless it nearly is to begin with. (subsonic < 1100 fps isn't
- it?) The 9mm (?) the Sterling fires is barely supersonic. A rifle bullet
- is usually around 3000 fps.
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