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Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired (jalopnik.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The suspect in the car was known to have at least one pistol with a suppressor. That being said, the guy was given a cursory pat-down and could not have had a suppressed firearm on him unless it was in him.

A properly setup suppressed pistol fired from within a vehicle would be fairly quiet, but would sound nothing like an acorn bouncing off a car and you would know if you were hit.

He has no business being a cop if he freaks out when an acorn bounces off a car and taps his vest. Luckily the suspect was not physically harmed and the cop resigned. Hopefully the suspect gets a nice payout from the city.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

That suspect was also handcuffed, not just hanging around.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think I read that the noise reduction from a suppressor is actually pretty minimal, and it's still in the same "incredibly painfully loud" ballpark as a regular gunshot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Depends. As long as the bullet doesn't break the sound barrier, a gun can be made reasonably silent with a good suppressor, to the point where the sound of the semi-automatic mechanism operating is louder than the gunshot itself. If the bullet is supersonic, then it will still be painfully loud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They did test them on mythbusters.

For hand guns they work really well ans aren't much louder then a nail gun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I've got a suppressed Ruger 10/22 (22LR) that's about as noisy as a stapler.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

A properly setup suppressed pistol fired from within a vehicle would be fairly quiet

A Glock 17 9mm pistol is 162 db, with a suppressor it is 126 db. That's roughly as loud as a jackhammer. Not exactly what I'd call quiet.