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HEMI 
| Supressors are used by criminals and are illegal just about everywhere.
They have no use to the law abiding my .02. |
OP, the difference as stated is life expectancy and yes on a tech 9 it will make a big difference, think explosion vs. cap gun.
You sir are either grossly misinformed or willfully ignorant, supressors are used to be a good neighbor and reduce noise. Its pretty obvious you have no experience with supressors. First of like others have said they aren't silencers they don't silence anything. There are 3 noises a bullet makes or 2 if sub-sonic. There is a pop the sound of compressed gas escaping, there is is a crack of breaking the sound barrier, and there is a hiss of water vapor boiling off the surface of the bullet. The suppresor reduces or removes the pop. It does nothing about the crack or the hiss. I have several suppressors and all of them sound similar to cap gun except when using sub sonic where the only thing you really hear is the hiss and impact of the shot if you are close enough.
Very few criminals if any in my recollection actually have access to supressors let allone a threaded barrel to use one.
On a semi-auto a supressor will generally make the gun run a little dirtier especially on a blow back style pistol. On a bolt action there doesn't seem to be much of a difference in how dirty it is. The first shot seems to be the loudest as the air in the supressor hasn't been heated up and is a bit denser. I have not noticed a real decrease in range or acuracy on my supressors but in theory you should lose some range due to the added turbulence when passing through the baffles.
