Dirty business
Question: In James Bond films a gun with a silencer is used to dispose of bad (and good) guys. How does the silencer work?
Answer: Silencers are more properly called sound moderators or suppressors and are widely used by hunters to reduce noise levels from the discharge of firearms, particularly sporting rifles and air weapons. A sound moderator is essentially no more than a series of baffles coupled to an expansion chamber, contained within a tubular attachment which screws on to the end of the firearm’s barrel.
The noise of the discharge of most firearms is made up…
