Talk:Baza/@comment-83.23.131.97-20171124005306/@comment-67.11.161.251-20171124035845

Sorry bros, but if you talk out of rumours I'll call you on it.

Suppressors do not necessarily reduce bullet velocity.

The type of suppressors people like to call silencers, however, they DO necessarily reduce bullet velocity. They do NOT necessarily reduce it a lot.

Depending on the weapon you're using, the bullets may already be barely supersonic, in which case certain types and grades of suppressors are designed to drop it down to slightly subsonic during firing. This is to avoid the sonic boom (which yes, bullets DO produce) that makes the sharp cracking noise as a bullet flies past you.

Most "silencer" suppressors however don't necessarily slow a bullet down to subsonic velocities. They do, however, provide friction against the bullet via a gasket, while dispersing propulsion gases internally. This removes and counteracts any propensity to act as a "longer barrel". In addition, most loads used in the type of weapon they're designed for don't have any gas driving propulsion by the time they exit the (unmodified) end of the barrel anyway, because that would be wasteful. So, yes, all suppressors of the type colloquially called "silencers" slow bullets down (usually used with specialized loads that are subsonic or nearly subsonic to begin with).

A "silencer" WILL, always slow the bullet down.

That being said, if a gun, like the Baza is designed to be silent? They're probably using loads that are designed to be just about subsonic to begin with, and obviously subsonic rounds, being comparitively much slower, will tend to have reduced range/accuracy due to both greater wind intereferance before striking a target, as well as greater "drop" during the increased travel duration.