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Old 05-26-2011, 12:40 PM   #5
Ze'Manel Cunha
 
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Default Re: Silencers for shotguns?

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Originally Posted by mlangsdorf View Post
So can a shotgun take a silencer or not?
Shotguns can have suppressors, sure, you can buy them in many jurisdictions.

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Originally Posted by mlangsdorf View Post
From the suppressor types on HT159, I'd suspect that shotguns can only use oversized baffle suppressors, but if you can put a suppressor on a .50 BMG, it seems like a 20G could certainly be suppressed, and maybe a 12G too.
Anecdotally there's an episode of the TV show Sons of Guns about their company Red Jacket's custom built shotgun suppressors:
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/sons...tgun-fire.html

They also do probably the only suppressed AK-47 in the world:
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/sons...k-47-test.html

http://www.redjacketfirearms.com/sup...ppressors.html
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