Hearing loss is insidious and cumulative. Anything you can do to slow it down/prevent it/lessen it is a good and rightful thing to do.
Suppressors:
-Increase situational awareness after the first shot is fired (was that your back door being kicked in? Can you hear where they are in the house if they bump into something after you just wasted their buddy?)
-Prevent a majority of the concussion of the shot (Small blessings, but it might keep you from blowing something into your face if you shoot near a wall/countertop/whatever and paint or something is on it. A paint fleck in the eye may be something stupid sounding to worry about, but just then is NOT the time you want to contend with it).
-Provides flash and recoil attenuation(if through nothing else than adding weight to the nose, and flash reduction is obvious benefit with dark adjusted eyes)
-I don't look at it so much as a suppressed .223/5.56 as I do "How would you like for your .22LR bullets to magically gain 1000# more energy and tripple their velocity as soon as they leave the muzzle?" Heck, yes! And that is what a suppressed 5.56 seems like to me on the sending-end. A 10/22 shooting CCI stingers.


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