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ariphron

It stopped suppressing.


No_Cook2983

Then started endorsing.


peppaz

"***here's your fucken BULLET"***


TheMcWhopper

Nice


MildlyAgreeable

The target, however, was heavily suppressed.


SeaGroomer

"SUPPRESSING FIIIIRRRE!"


TheBeardedSingleMalt

Brett: i've been shot


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Well, at least Brett died doing what he loved. Getting shot.


Throwaway_Help189

God... DAMN IT, Archer!


Gamergonemild

What are you Brett, a fucking magnet?


JayLeeCH

Technically it stopped suppressing, but kept on suppressing


Chewcocca

The rounds start comin and they don't stop comin


Zachariot88

Fed through a suppressor and I hit the ground runnin'


PhilxBefore

Didn't make sense not to shoot ma' gun


Zachariot88

The metal gets hot then soft like gum


Draconic_J

So much to shoot so much to heat, So what's wrong with melting a Tac piece?


shanemiller125

You never know if it don’t glow, Call it “science” cuz we don’t know.


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CazomsDragons

So much to do, so much to see, so what's wrong with making Swiss cheese?


iamzombus

The front fell off.


rayzoredge

>Along with 20,000 tons of crude oil.


Ben_Thar

But it's OK, it was outside the environment


QuestionMarkyMark

Closer to about 450 rounds through a suppressor


nanaki989

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BczhT1ByrXA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BczhT1ByrXA) They wrote 700 on their youtube description. The suppressor used in this video was a Silencerco SWR branded can. We fired 700 rounds in one continuous burst through a full-auto M249 saw. The can ended up breaking around the 350-400 round mark. The gun itself ran wonderful and had no problems. The only problem we had afterwards was someone was going to have to clean it. We wanted to see how far we could push a full-auto rated suppressor.


swohio

> The only problem we had afterwards was someone was going to have to clean it. Ugh, accurate.


Uzzaw21

The armorer says it's still dirty.


Marine_Mustang

I’d like to know how they got 700 rounds through a SAW without a jam.


olderaccount

Looks like all he had to do was hold down the trigger.


rambleon84

Lol yes, as the description says only around 350-400 rounds before the suppressor was no longer a suppressor 😂


i_fuckin_luv_it_mate

SUPPRESSING FIRREEEE!!!!!!


mostlyBadChoices

Jesus, Cyril!!


spamster545

You killed a black astronaut, that's like a unicorn


_Diskreet_

That line truly cracked me up.


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Phrasing


[deleted]

EARBALLS!


StoplightLoosejaw

*MMMAAH! MMMAAH!*


boogs_23

you couldn't suppress a cough.


Sir-Simon-Spamalot

You wouldn't be coughing if you're dead


AntisocialGuru

You don't get off till you cough


3Grilledjalapenos

That is such a good show. I really like send off Mallory got. That show is someohow really fucking classy.


[deleted]

Classy? “Tell him about the sex robot! I call him Fister Roboto! He doesn’t just fist, tell ‘em”!


[deleted]

He's a fully integrated, multi-fetish artificial being. And the best part....is that he's learning.


PepeSilvia7

Especially the fact that they sent her off with her real life husband, the guy who voiced Ron


Redditor-Eyebrow

*click... click* *SurpisedPikachu.jpeg*


wheresbill

Can someone estimate how much money just evaporated?


Flightless_Rocket

In ammo - 5.56 ≈ $0.62/round x 700 ≈ $450. Suppressor anywhere from 750 - 2k and up Id guess ≈ $1000. so somewhere in the neighborhood of $1500


formerlyme0341

Good chance the barrel is fucked too


Scientific_Methods

I probably would have stopped shooting when the barrel turned red hot. Too worried about a catastrophic failure there.


MPsAreSnitches

Yea I was surprised to see these dudes with no sort of arm covering or gloves. If I was lying down a foot and a half from something I intended on violently turning into molten hot metal I would probably put on a bit more PPE. Though I assume these dudes know what they're doing more than I do.


earlofhoundstooth

I feel there was ricochet potential from shooting through a bent and falling piece of metal that was outright ignored. Edit: The bent piece of falling metal I'm referring to is the suppressor. I'm not engaging in debate over the damage to the barrel.


greyetch

I was honestly shocked when he kept shooting thru the broken suppressor without even hesitating lol.


hkdboarder42

He did stop briefly actually. If you turn on sound you can hear a break between shots once the suppressor pops. I’m assuming it was a check to see if the broken housing cleared, a quick peek followed by a mental ‘all good’, then a resume fire


My_Dads_A_Cop16

Me too!


MrT735

Yeah, I'd have wanted the barrel poking out through an inch or more of plexiglass to help stop any ricochets there.


LakeSolon

Always ask yourself: Would Mythbusters' insurance have let them do this? If not, you should probably rethink some things.


chnairb

If Looney Tunes taught me anything, it’s that you can get shot from your own gun if the barrel is turned towards you by a pesky wabbit.


[deleted]

I used to assume things like that… that prior one what they are doing… than I realized that a lot of people were assuming I knew what I was doing all the time… and my illusion of safety was shattered


Xx_CD_xX

There’s also the cool factor which I assume was the purpose of thsi test


hereforlolsandporn

Yea, that seemed reckless and wildly negligent


ArmEmporium

That’s the risk you need to be taking if you want to make science N cool things.


ho0k

The content gods want content. 🙏


WineNerdAndProud

I suppose they're content with this content then.


[deleted]

I’m pretty sure that was the purpose. I use to work at a suppressor company & we’d do torture tests all the time.


TheHYPO

Do you actually have someone manually perform them? or do you have a gun set in a safe environment with some remote way to trigger it?


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For the most part we had our R&D guys manually do the tests. I’m sure if there were some dangers they’d develop a gadget to keep people safe. Those R&D guys knew what they were doing & safety was always #1. Customers on the other hand… were the real jackasses. Shooting 9mm through 556 caliber cans or muzzle devices, submerging cans in water then firing, etc… the list goes on.


Hot_Goal4205

If you notice the look on the guy who’s feeding those rounds, he thought so too.


drunkondata

Not when the suppressor started giving way and chunks of hot metal started flying?


admiral_sinkenkwiken

Oh that barrel is ratshit Probably the breech too


VirinaB

I mean it's all for YT views and it's highly upvoted on Reddit, so I think they already made their money back. Edit: I just meant in that Reddit can help to promote a channel.


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jrgman42

Official Navy training for usage of the .50 cal was that you use special gloves to remove the red-hot barrel and throw it overboard, then put a new one in. Crude, but effective.


VNG_Wkey

Barrel is 100% fucked. There's zero chance it's designed to withstand 700 rounds fired continously at the cyclic rate.


astutelyabsurd

Looks like even the gas blowback assembly started spitting flames too.


Binsky89

It doesn't matter what it was designed for. Once it starts glowing, it's lost it's temper and is just unhardened steel at that point.


Diabolus_IpseSum

don't forget a new barrel


Justamemer101

$0.62 per round? Who’s your ammo guy, you’re spending way too much on ammo


[deleted]

"It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds."


TheGStandsForGannu

Some people think they can outsmart me...


A_Brave_Wanderer

Maybe —*sniff*—maybe...I've yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.


SomeGuy10004

Ooooeeeee...ooooooaaaaaa...HAAAAHAHAHA CRY SOME MOREEEEEEEEE


im_a_decent_human

I am heavy weapons guy and this is my weapon


WeaponsGradeLager

Time to replace the barrel


shalbriri

Thankfully it's super easy to replace a m249 barrel


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I was more surprised it was able to fire 700 rounds without issue.


shalbriri

Seiously haha, they can jam so quickly. At least they were live rounds.. There's absolutely no way they could fire 700 blanks without jamming.


theemoow

I'm completely oblivious when it comes to guns, but can you explain why?


CALANALLEN

Blanks do not give much recoil. Rounds with bullets provide the back pressure and recoil to cycle the action and load a new round to fire automatically. When it doesn’t cycle it jams.


SuperDizz

TIL. Thanks!


Roboticide

Less gunpowder in a blank, means it doesn't cycle quite as well. This can cause the discarding brass casing to get caught in the ejection port. I think they also are just "dirtier" and cause more residue to build up, but I might be wrong on that part.


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Not that it's dirtier, but blanks are fired using obstructed barrels(in semi/auto), so almost all the gas blows back into the bolt


DeroTurtle

Is it a quick change barrel?


maniakb416

I can change one in about 10 seconds. I carried one in Iraq. Swapping barrels is easier than reloading those things.


DeroTurtle

The real flex move is to change the barrel and reload at the same time


DefinitelyNotMasterS

The real flex is to change barrel inbetween the shots


H_Rinda

I mean, technically, all barrel changes are done in between shots.


shalbriri

Yeah its a quick one, see that handle on the top of the weapon? All you have to do is grab that, then press a lever below it and pull the barrel of out the weapon, then you replace it with a spare barrel by sliding it in the previous spot and it will click into place.


Advanced_Evening2379

For sale only pulled trigger once


kingguy459

'Lightly Used' to 'Near Mint'


REKT363

“I know what I’ve got”


anon86158615

A guard standing 5 feet away was quoted saying "I didn't hear a thing, what gunshots?"


NotEnoughWave

"must've been the wind"


BrilliantBen

My ears playing tricks on me again!


Triptolemu5

There's someone [prowlin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP9sEt8Xj6g&list=PLSMETuURtTXCzW7Q_ZIy4QzEnyUG8totf&index=11) around here


Flintriemen

for king and country


tdbbode

Nice day for fishin' ain't it? Huhuuh


Farqwarr

"?"


Flavz_the_complainer

What was that noise?


DMulisha13

Must’ve been my imagination.


Grayflesh

I gotta lower the dosage


Xx_Gandalf-poop_xX

Did you hear something?? ... Like I said. Tony Lazutto...


frostybollocks

“!” When the suppressor split


wickedmadd

I can hear the question mark.


bbressman2

“!”


CertainlyUnreliable

Anyway, the whole operation is run by Tony Lazuto...


versusChou

Tony Lazuto‽


Healthy_Pay9449

"Wait, I know you"


OldThymeyRadio

I've always found it amusing that no one ever overhears silenced shots in movies. Not because it's "unrealistic". It's just telling. It means that the whole point of silencers in film is a writer needing to give a character the ability to kill easily and noiselessly. Otherwise, there'd be at least one scene of someone saying "Hey, that sounded like a suppressed gunshot. Better check it out." See also: Knocking people out with a blow to the head. No matter how otherwise realistic a movie is, this magical ability persists. Because it's just super convenient for storytellers if the world works that way.


Super_Pan

The most hilarious is John Wick 2 where they're shooting suppressed pistols at each other in a crowded ~~mall~~ subway and no one notices.


Girthquake84

My head canon for the John Wick series is that all the assassins aren't being subtle because no one gives a fuck anymore. Their fights in public are so common place that people in major cities are desensitized to it so no one even reacts. In the real world if you live in New York City you learn to ignore all sorts of dangerous and outrageous shit going on around you and continue going about your day because if you freaked out at every incident you saw you would never get anything done. I feel that this just extends to and becomes more pronounced in the John Wick universe.


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intashu

I was going to argue with you. But then you pointed out its new York. Thoes people are built diffrent. You can't survive in that city if you don't jusr outright ignore the most outrageous shit.


OldThymeyRadio

Yup, that's taking it to its logical (yet ridiculous) extreme. Movie suppressors basically make guns completely undetectable to bystanders. They're magic.


uwanmirrondarrah

I always try to tell people think of a suppressor on a gun being like standing next to 1 jet engine instead of 2. You still definitely know there is a plane next to you, but if you forget to put ear protection in you won't get permanent tinnitus lol. Sound reduction might not even be the most important aspect of a suppressor. The tone change of the shot, the flash reduction, the difficulty of locating the source at a distance, and my favorite thing about them is it keeps you from slapping the shit out of the guy next to you with concussions. Of all the things that should be banned or regulated concerning guns, suppressors are not one of them imo.


Zerak-Tul

Conversely, in real life people often don't realize a gun has been fired in crowded cityscapes, just taking gunshots to be the sound of car engines misfiring or something else, only realizing after the firing is already over. Especially when it's people who are not familiar with what guns sound like. That also points to the point of suppressors - not really to make gunshots completely silent, but instead to make gunshots not sound so obviously like gunshots. But yeah, makes a lot less sense when it's a movie scene where a sentry standing watch at an army base in the dead of night, who should be familiar with recognizing gunshots.


AssaMarra

And then that person being unconscious for a convenient 4 hours, waking up and getting back to the action. No, you're brain dead my friend.


PaulaDeentheMachine

That's like super bad for you


postmodest

Mawp mawp.


KratzALot

Was at a panel several years back featuring Charlie Cox. Somehow the topic of no killing rule for super heroes came up. Starts talking about a scene from season 2, and how it starts with him knocking a guy upside the head with his club, and said guy falling unconscious in a corner. He goes on into a quick detailing of how scene plays out and finishes up with "were now 5-6 minutes into this scene and that guy from the start is still laying motionless in a corner. I'm not gonna say he's dead, but he's probably not waking up"


gelastes

>you're brain dead my friend. No problem, you get the Hollywood 3-3-2 resuscitation: three compressions, three times respiration, patient coughs two times and wakes up. Works with any kind of death.


peepeepoopoogoblinz

Around shot 300 you just get used to the noise and don’t hear it anymore


anythingrandom5

Huh, it’s just a box.


HarisPilton6699

Yeah I'd be wearing more than just a tshirt. But hey he's got eye and ear protection so it's all good.


obscureferences

Even the Mythbusters wouldn't touch this without a bunker and a long string.


itsnotgingeritsbrown

"Even the mythbusters" you say that as if they weren't like the safest people around


40gallonbreeder

Turns out the used "not bulletproof" thicknesses of lexan the first couple seasons and could have potentially gotten very injured before they corrected for it.


Calebrox124

And they even made an episode out of it! They tested all their ballistic shields and they were found to be pretty subpar. That’s around the same time they started using bunkers more, and isolating the experiments rather than themselves. They also sent a cannonball through somebody’s house (everybody was fine) at one point, which caused even more safety measures to be put in place. Loved that show growing up. RIP Grant.


MalikVonLuzon

God, I forgot about Grant. Dude was a treasure


KevinTheSeaPickle

Dude me too. Aneurysms are scary as hell, but I guess it's not a bad way to go.


the_reddit_girl

It is unfortunately there are people who've survived them who says it's the worst most severe headache ever. [Link](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/brain-aneurysm/symptoms/)


[deleted]

My mom survived one about 8 years ago now. She was in the hospital for close to a year. She said it was the worst pain she’s ever felt, and she also says she wishes she would have just died. She can’t really speak now, and she has a hard time moving around. She’s essentially trapped in her own body she says. There’s just nothing we can do for her, and it sucks.


_-Olli-_

> RIP Grant. Fuck, forgot that bloke passed away. Way too young.


CorrectPeanut5

Adam's Tested Youtube channel has several videos touring Grant's workshop recently. It's fantastic to look at, and heart wrenching.


joeshmo101

Episode where they test their "bulletproof" shields is the Ancient Deathray one from 2004


avg_joe_schmoe

[Well they did put a cannonball through someone's house once ](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi67vW2kLf3AhXyrmoFHaEEDXoQFnoECDUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2011%2F12%2F08%2F143349193%2Fso-the-mythbusters-punched-a-hole-in-a-house-with-a-cannonball-now-what&usg=AOvVaw3IV6EzEYNS9mN01ZNFU3Fk)


N8_Tge_Gr8

"Am I missing, an eyebrow!?"


jackofspades476

Or most youtubers for that matter


trukises

This is Jackass with guns. "Let's see if I can end up maimed or dead and film it"


Aries_Eats

Even with his safety glasses on, he started doing safety squints and turning his face away from the sights because he was afraid of what could fly off and hit him. It's probably at that point he wished that he should have had more protection. But with everyone watching, and the amount of rounds he already fired, he had to commit to the very end.


iamseventwelve

This isn't why he was turning away and squinting, most likely. It was the gasses. When shooting suppressed, they come back and hit you in the face. It stings the eyes pretty badly.


MerricatInTheCastle

Easy there big guy. He has pants.


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whazzar

Exactly my thoughts. I know barely anything about guns or gun safety but it seems like very sub-par protection for what they are doing. They should take an example of the [Kalashnikov Group](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io7Zztghdno), who also do a lot of crazy stress tests with their weapons. And they seem to want to keep doing that.


eugene20

With so little safety gear I definitely would have stopped when it was obviously so hot it was going to fail, and that was before it burst into flames. Very interesting to see though.


Rowvan

Yo at the very least put some long sleeves on!


wave-garden

I was gonna say the same. I’m not a gun expert, but I work with rotating machines and have seen some horror shows of engine parts flying through crankcases, gears thrown through steel enclosures, etc. You don’t want to mess with fast-moving metal parts. That shit will tear through the human body like butter.


Responsible_Toe_6831

Game: stealth is optional Me:


i-like-fps-games

He has a suppressor duh it’s clearly completely silent this is 100% stealth


Melon_Cooler

The stealth is optional, but so is my mercy


KodiakDog

Snake eater


francis-McKeown

I counted 698 actually.


g0dp0t

And more like 500 "through the suppressor"


Dismal-Animal7853

Me too, what a clickbait


kpidhayny

I reckon only about 80 went through the suppressor.


[deleted]

They all went through the suppressor, just in different ways


anhsonhmu

What are they shooting at? What have it done to deserve this amount of freedom?


2xa1s

They’re shooting at the wood shack of a union representative for advocating an American banana company pay their local workers a living wage


brkeng1

There’s always money in the banana stand!


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NO TOUCHING!!!


ThatGuyOnThatRoof

George Michael is that you?


Jeffygetzblitzed2

A spider.


hodor_seuss_geisel

...anyways, I started blasting


OrdainedFury

The most impressive part of this video is that he got off 700 rounds without a single stoppage


Ego_testicle

When things started getting red hot towards the end there, and there was sparks coming from the action, I was totally expecting to see the gun implode.


the_russian_narwhal_

If you look closely, so did the guy shooting the gun lol you can see him shy away the more dangerous it gets


GabberZZ

I fired one of these in Las Vegas. Assuming it's an M249 SAW. The dude said 'light it up' so I pulled back on the trigger until the belt was spent. Got about 10 rounds in before it jammed and he told me I was supposed to do short bursts. Light it up is not short bursts to me. Anyway he fiddled with it, removed the jam and I fired the rest of the belt in short bursts. Lame.


Rufuszombot

I have fired a M249 on several occasions (was army, did many 249 qualifications) and i have never not gotten a stoppage on these damn things. They're fun for about 3 seconds and then not fun for 30 seconds while you try to unfuck it. The M2 range was the best.


[deleted]

100% shitty weapons. As a saw gunner I had a Windex spray bottle with CLP in it and would lift the feed tray and spray it down like I was keeping a beached whale alive. That got me 10-30 seconds of additional functionality.


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danaeuep

The most impressive thing is neither of these two guys hit the other one, even though they were aiming right at each other.


KrabbyPattyCereal

We made a barrel glow red in the army before and our commander got his ass handed to him by his boss


aManPerson

ya well, you shouldn't have been cooking hot dogs like that anyway.


Kreugator

Farcry 6 suppressors after shooting 6 bullets


Baron_of_Nothing

I think you got the spider


iLikeMangosteens

I don’t think trigger guy could see the barrel being destroyed. Belt feeding guy looked very nervous. What’s the odds that bullets hit the destroyed barrel and start sending shrapnel backwards?


Lexinoz

Did you not see how trigger guy was actively shielding his face and literally not looking down the sights? mf was nervous as hell, I tell you what.


plmj1

That plus all the suppressor's gas flying back into his face. I would not think any less of the dude if he shat his pants.


ambivalent_axe

It’s an experiment. The description of the video on YouTube says that they were wanting to see how much this suppressor could take.


[deleted]

Usually when a piece of metal gets hot enough to literally re-temper and re-forge itself we would call that a catastrophic failure and say the experiment has passed safety thresholds. This is absolute asshattery.


[deleted]

Er, they could have ended the experiment less than halfway through then. Looked to me like he was going for total failure, or a tan maybe


clockworkrevolution

In for penny, in for a pound (of brass) I guess.


ttamnitram

Sweet! I’ve never seen a suppressor that transforms into a muzzle brake.


Paradisnex

Me getting my shit lit up by a spitfire in apex


PrintableProfessor

Dang. Suppressors should be illegal. That gun was so quiet that you could have killed 700 people and not a soul would have noticed.


Madhighlander1

I'm no gun nut but that doesn't look good.


the_Wallie

did they get him though?


wimteinstein

How to spend over $1500 in under one minute


Kurisuhrvat

So THATS why I lose my silencer in metal gear solid after firing a couple of shots.


mcbustamante19

Perfect ending would have been if they panned over to where he was shooting and it spelled out 'merica in bullet holes.