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Elmotime

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25. Subsonic Rounds?

Reply to WarGamer (Reply #14)

Fri Dec 6, 2024, 09:47 AM

Dec 2024

If you are trying to minimize noise, subsonic rounds lack the crack of most ammunition. A suppressor + lower powered subsonic ammo often lack the power to properly cycle the gun causing the need to manually rack the slide between shots.

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Strange conjecture: Brian Thompson's murder may have been a contract killing [View all] jmowreader Dec 2024 OP

Why is that considered choie Dec 2024 #1

because some are acting like he is a folk hero Skittles Dec 2024 #2

Ah. choie Dec 2024 #11

So the guy who paid him is the folk hero? intheflow Dec 2024 #22

I don't think of the shooter as a hero.... BUT.... Happy Hoosier Dec 2024 #23

I doubt he was a professional assassin Meowmee Dec 2024 #3

Definitely NOT a pro. Happy Hoosier Dec 2024 #24

This has been one of my theories. yardwork Dec 2024 #4

I doubt he would use his own ID to check in to the hostel Sanity Claws Dec 2024 #5

Apparently he used a fake New Jersey ID, from what I read. Oneironaut Dec 2024 #7

Not strange. No one knows the actual reason. Only conjecture and speculation. Solly Mack Dec 2024 #6

Cui bono? RockRaven Dec 2024 #8

He had the bike at the killing scene...he rode away on it Prairie Gates Dec 2024 #9

He doesn't appear to be well off. LisaL Dec 2024 #10

His backpack is not cheap FreeState Dec 2024 #19

There is zero proof he isn't well off obamanut2012 Dec 2024 #26

Suppressors take as little as a week to obtain these days NickB79 Dec 2024 #12

Maybe so ... Straw Man Dec 2024 #18

It wasn't a Station Six 9 pistol. NutmegYankee Dec 2024 #13

were they jams? Or was he cycling the bolt action pistol above? Look again. WarGamer Dec 2024 #14

See picture: NutmegYankee Dec 2024 #15

a random youtuber said he was racking the gun each time, unnecessarily. nt ecstatic Dec 2024 #17

If a stock pistol is used, the silencer can cause the slide to not properly close. NutmegYankee Dec 2024 #20

Subsonic Rounds? Elmotime Dec 2024 #25

Possibly. Straw Man Dec 2024 #30

I think y'all are all overthinking it. The only thing unique about that attack was that the killer limited ecstatic Dec 2024 #16

His estranged wife had really nice things to say about him. They lived in the same city allegorical oracle Dec 2024 #21

Cigna did it! Omnipresent Dec 2024 #27

Except the station he exited was an F train local, the sole line that uses that one Aviation Pro Dec 2024 #28

I read today snowybirdie Dec 2024 #29

I'm not an expert... Dulcinea Dec 2024 #31