Improvised Gun Silencer
This is a document on building a firearm noise suppresser. It can be made simply out of cardboard and glue.
The following instructions can be used to construct a simple, cheap and effective silencer for a .22 LR rifle or pistol. This design can be adopted to function for other firearm calibers, however, a threaded barrel/silencer junction is recommended for cartridges more powerful than .22 LR.
First, a word on “silencers.” The term is a nice one, but very inaccurate. Anyone with more than a layman’s knowledge of guns would call them a firearm noise suppresser, but that is also somewhat misleading. They both sound as if they are a device that either eliminates or muffles the sound of a gun being fired. It really changes the way it sounds. A “silenced” shot can also make sounds of up to 110 dB, but, if someone shot a gun near you, you wouldn’t think,”That sounds like a muffled gunshot,” you’d think “I wonder what that sound was?” The sound that it makes depends upon the suppresser, the weapon, the caliber, and the ammunition.
Basically, there are 3 ways suppressers are made. Either with baffles (little washer-type things spaced at regular intervals along the body of the silencer), screen (wire mesh wound around the inside walls of the tube), or a combination of the two. For simplicity, this one will use baffles only, but anyone could adapt it to screen or a combination.
This gun silencer is easy to make and highly effective.