a lot of people think silencers are magic and unaware of that to make a super quiet setup takes a lot of knowledge of what gun to use as host, what caliber and even grain loading, powder charge (even more exotic is that some of this super quiet ammo is lacquered and only available for gov’t/military direct sale) as well as what type of can such as wet or dry, baffles, wipes or even limited number of uses of the can.

you can have a setup that while hearing unsafe doesn’t scare off the animals a mile out hence for hunting deer its perfectly fine with ear pro, or you can have a setup that you only hear the click of the trigger and hammer and the round hitting its target. there are smgs from ww2 that you only hear the shell casings hit the ground and the target being hit

I have a Nagant revolver with a custom can and it sounds like a cap gun. If I had the money I could have had the thing be outfitted with a thinned, vented barrel with a can that fitted over the barrel with custom baffles like the KGB used. That setup is so quiet you only hear the click of the trigger.

If he was using a homemade hence illegal can with a legal purchased handgun then odds are he had no idea what a booster is or that he needed subsonic ammo and was startled at how loud it was but went with it anyway

Yes simple jack, it is. Just say “load the gun.” We all know load the gun means insert the magazine and rack the slide. Do the same thing. If the gun doesn’t fire: insert magazine and rack the slide. We don’t need a bunch of special new tacti-terms to complicate such a simple thing. If your gun isn’t working, load it again. We don’t need to spend time and money on some special type 1, type 2, type 3 malfunction clinic run by tactical elitists. Rant complete.

So, is it elitist to “tap, rack, bang”? Asking for a friend.

C’mon Dan you can do better. It took me less than 30 seconds to find all these and numerous more links.

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this thing of labeling malfunctioning by type number is tactical elitism. if the gun malfunctions rack the slide and try again if that doesn’t work remove the magazine and put a new one on and try again. people, including many instructors, make this topic way more complicated than it needs to be.

Perhaps the assassin knew there was a problem with the gun cycling, but did not know why. Admittedly that seems like an odd knowledge gap.

That aside, the reaction to the malfs does suggest the assassin had practiced with the pistol + suppressor combo ahead of time.

That would be an indicator of a Type 3 malf. Or a bungled response to another type.

I think masks are illegal in NYC too.

Police found 3 unspent rounds at the scene. The gun was malfunctioning.