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Do you know how loud a gunshot is..? And he thought the sound of an acorn hitting the car was a shot fired by the suspect inside the car he's standing next to? Either he's lying or he's remarkably stupid, either way he should not have a gun.
The suspect in the car was known to have at least one pistol with a suppressor. That being said, the guy was given a cursory pat-down and could not have had a suppressed firearm on him unless it was in him.
A properly setup suppressed pistol fired from within a vehicle would be fairly quiet, but would sound nothing like an acorn bouncing off a car and you would know if you were hit.
He has no business being a cop if he freaks out when an acorn bounces off a car and taps his vest. Luckily the suspect was not physically harmed and the cop resigned. Hopefully the suspect gets a nice payout from the city.
That suspect was also handcuffed, not just hanging around.
I think I read that the noise reduction from a suppressor is actually pretty minimal, and it's still in the same "incredibly painfully loud" ballpark as a regular gunshot
Depends. As long as the bullet doesn't break the sound barrier, a gun can be made reasonably silent with a good suppressor, to the point where the sound of the semi-automatic mechanism operating is louder than the gunshot itself. If the bullet is supersonic, then it will still be painfully loud.
They did test them on mythbusters.
For hand guns they work really well ans aren't much louder then a nail gun.
I've got a suppressed Ruger 10/22 (22LR) that's about as noisy as a stapler.
A Glock 17 9mm pistol is 162 db, with a suppressor it is 126 db. That's roughly as loud as a jackhammer. Not exactly what I'd call quiet.
He's definitely PTSD and not responding rationally to the situation. This person is not competent to hold a firearm.
Not you, nor i, nor the cop, nor anyone experience true reality.
We all experience what our brains cobble together from some sensory inputs, saying "it wasn't as loud as a gunshot" is, at best, a meaningless statement, and at worst, utterly idiotic.
you want to blame something? blame the Police force that hired him, blame the cop propaganda that heightened the PTSD, blame the predominant hyper individualist culture in America, blame the lack of healthcare, blame the commonly held notion that mental health is fake and should just walk it off, blame the fact that the nation fails those who served it at every single turn, blame the economic system that requires you to work to live even at the level of an African substance farmer (fun fact, some regions in Florida are so poor that they live in conditions that make imminent post soviet collapse Balkans seem luxurious), etc...
What the hell are you talking about about? An acorn hitting a car might be 50-80 decibels; a Glock 17 9mm pistol is 162 decibels, that's louder than a jet taking off. That is ridiculously loud, perception doesn't factor in at that point. If you can't tell the difference between an acorn and a gunshot then you are not properly tethered to reality.
damn, I didn't realize our ears are infallible decibel meters, nor that it is output into a chart instead of a big sentient tapioca interpreting electric signals (PS: you are inherently not tethered to reality, you are sentient tapioca pudding trying to make sense of a whole big jumble of electric signals)