Posted: 8/22/2001 8:58:37 PM EDT
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Here's a passage from "Fight Club" the novel by Chuck Palahniuk "With my tongue I can feel the silencer holes we drilled into the barrel of the gun.... To make a silencer, you just drill holes in the barrel of the gun, a lot of holes. This lets the gas escape and slows the bullet to below the speed of sound." That's on page one too. I bet those ported Glock and Taurus are really quiet now! Not to mention my 300WinMag rifle with that Swiss Cheese looking thing at the end of its barrel. Oh and it gets better. A later part of the novel the main character threaten to go on a rampage with his Armalite AR10 (he got this part right) with bullets with tips filed off so they will expand and make nasties. Yo buddy, save yourself the trouble and buy a box of soft or hollow point. Better yet, go to a bank, take out a loan, and buy a clue. And you think only Hollywood type get confused. |
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I take it you have never seen a suppressed Sterling barrel? There are several designs that have ported barrels, over which the suppressor is placed, along with them being the simplest for the homemade type. These designs "TEND" to be more accurate than cans that use wipes (B&T cans notwithstanding). I have not read the book, but at least he didn't say anything about a suppressed S&W revolver! Semper Fi! Ken Little |
| Thomas Harris, Dean Koontz, and (to a lesser extent) Stephen King are among the few mainstream authors I've read who pretty consistently get the firearms details right. Some of the genre series writers, like Don Pendleton, get gun stuff right, but they are writing to a target audience that has an interest in such things and they know it. Harris, Koontz, and King apparently have some personal interest in such material or simply like to get details right. |