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Sound from a gunshot is made by expanding gases traveling behind the bullet. What a silencer does is though a serious of baffels and expansion chambers slows the expansion of the gases so that when they leave the muzzle (after the bullet of course) they have already expanded to the point that they don't make nearly as much sound. The great misunderstood truth being that silencers alone do not totally slience firearms like they do in the movies. You still get a crack retort, just at a HUGE cut in decible level. However Subsonic ammunition greatly reduces this retort as well and combined they pretty well quiet the gun, at least to the point that you would have to be standing beside the person and intentionally listening to hear it in most cases.
Thats the quick and dirty answer. I will leave it up to others to expound upon the theory.
GoodOlBoy
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