The firearm designs technically can function on an airgun with the correct adapters, however they don't generally work terribly well compared to their airgun counterparts. So I have designed and built, legally, both airgun and firearm moderators and suppressors. While the firearm suppressor may not be regulated in Mexico, the price of the firearm suppressor is probably 2 or 3 times higher than an airgun suppressor. Because firearm suppressors must stand up to much more abuse, the standards are much higher, and so is the price. Good airgun suppressors are $150 to maybe $200. Good info, and one other reason to buy a real "Airgun" device instead of adapting a firearm "silencer". Thanks, saved me typing something very similar ? So, in short, you could do it hypothetically but you'd probably not like the results. So, in short, you could do it hypothetically but you'd probably not like the results. Shock noise - the instantaneous loss of pressure across a choked flow device Turbulent mixing - the ripping of the air as the vent gas decelerates to zero velocity during discharge to atmosphere Natural gas silencers control blowdown noise through a reactive-absorptive process, which provides good attenuation across all octave frequency bands. This allows further sound damping than you'll find in firearms suppressors. Airgun moderators, using just cold air rather than burning powder, can use materials such as felt and foam which wouldn't stand up to use on a firearm. As a result they use architectures which will cause POI shift and pellet destabilization in some cases. Bullets are relatively resistant to cross-flow in a suppressor, and expectations for accuracy are typically lower than with airguns.
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(even the firing pin strike is hardly quiet) Then there are elements of materials and design. A rimfire suppressor is typically a pretty small device, and meant simply to make your rimfire no longer painful to shoot without earpro, not so quiet nobody would ever figure out what you're doing, as the action of the rimfire itself is typically fairly loud. The most obvious is that expectations are radically different for the firearms industry than the airgun industry, so airgun moderators are comparatively larger relative to caliber/power and are intended to make the airgun much quieter.
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