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Thread: Marines Getting Silencers
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December 30th, 2020, 06:41 PM #11
Re: Marines Getting Silencers
Combat doesn't always happen on a big open field. More often , we're sending Marines into urban settings. Your ability to hear what's going on around you is very important to yer health , and you don't always have time to don yer hearing protection. Especially going door to door. An M4 or M16 in a confined space isn't a pleasant sound
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December 30th, 2020, 08:46 PM #12
Re: Marines Getting Silencers
Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, consider this prejudice.
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December 30th, 2020, 09:56 PM #13
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December 30th, 2020, 09:57 PM #14
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December 31st, 2020, 06:08 AM #15Grand Member
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Re: Marines Getting Silencers
The ability to hear commands are essential for effective operations.
I did my time in the field artillery, so imagine an AR x 1000. If you wore ear plugs you couldn't hear gun commands, so we would stick our fingers in our ears before (hopefully) the gun fired. I have permanent hearing damage and tinnitus from that experience.
Suppressors are cheap relatively speaking. I'm surprised this hasn't been done long ago.
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December 31st, 2020, 08:26 AM #16Super Member
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Re: Marines Getting Silencers
You are correct, but there are many situations where hearing protection can put you at greater risk.
On the day that I suffered one of my worst hearing injuries, I was not wearing hearing protection. If I had been wearing hearing protection and not heard the instructions of my team leader, there is a very good chance I would have suffered far more grave consequences.
And this was in a peacetime training exercise.
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December 31st, 2020, 02:01 PM #17
Re: Marines Getting Silencers
One thing about silencers that rarely gets mentioned is their ability to almost completely mask muzzle flash. To me that is just as important in many situations as their ability to reduce the decibel level of the report.
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January 1st, 2021, 08:58 AM #18
Re: Marines Getting Silencers
"Cives Arma Ferant"
"I know I'm not James Bond, that's why I don't keep a loaded gun under the pillow, or bang Russian spies on a regular basis." - GunLawyer001
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January 1st, 2021, 09:00 AM #19
Re: Marines Getting Silencers
Bingo, and I want the lawsuit based on this.
Because suppressors are standard issue for marines, and issued to every army unit it at least some capacity. The standard rifle is an SBR, and the standard shotgun is an SBS.
More over, the standard rifles are all automatic. Which was not the case at the time of the Miller ruling."Cives Arma Ferant"
"I know I'm not James Bond, that's why I don't keep a loaded gun under the pillow, or bang Russian spies on a regular basis." - GunLawyer001
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January 1st, 2021, 09:52 AM #20
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