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This may have been already covered. Just wondering what people's thoughts on running your home defense gun with a suppressor. Too much of a legal risk? In other words do you think if you use one legally you could still get into trouble? Just curious.
Curious why you would want a suppressor on a home defense gun?
 
I use suppressors for my home defense and truck guns. There isn't always time for ear protection and the cost of the suppressor is better than permanent hearing damage. Also, the police will be along shortly and you want to be able to hear any commands because they don't necessarily know that you aren't the criminal.

Witt Machine makes several that cost under $500 including tax stamp that are also very compact. Not super quiet but good enough to prevent permanent hearing damage.
 
Curious why you would want a suppressor on a home defense gun?

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Yes. Had a friend with several old houses on his 80k acre spread in eastern Oregon. Did a lot of testing of different types of ammo on walls . .223 zips right through Sheetrock walls
Sounds like you were using the wrong ammo. Get the stuff with the polly tips like V-Max or similar and it will only blow through a few layers of sheetrock before the bullet is completely obliterated. This is better (or worse, depending) barrier penetration performance than even Buckshot or 9mm hollow point.

Now of course if you use FMJ it will sail through who knows how many layers of sheetrock. This is why bullet selection is important and you should not confuse plinking/military ammo with defensive ammo. They all have their place, and for the vast majority of us in a defensive situation over-penetration of building materials is not very desirable.

BTW the results from many real world tests can be seen here: https://how-i-did-it.org/drywall/results.html
The site is old, but it looks like they got the pictures loading again. I would check it out/make a copy for future reference because the site looks unmaintained now so who knows how long it will stay up.
 

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