How Do You Make A BB Gun Silencer?
Do this at your own risk! The ATF has put people in prison before for making Airgun silencers. If someone at the ATF can manage to make it work on a real gun, i.e a .22 rifle, your Airgun silencer is classified as a real silencer and you will be prosecuted under the 1934 National Firearms Act. Having said that, you have an Airgun and you would like it to be just a little bit quieter. This wiki should help you with that. • Keep your gun clean. • If there is a hammer in its mechanism that strikes a metal plate at the end of its movement, a small piece of thin sound-absorbing material, such as plastic, mounted on the plate will reduce this sound. Repeating this action through out the gun’s firing mechanism will reduce the mechanical noise of your weapon. • You must calculate how much air expands in your gun’s firing chamber. The silencer you build must have enough internal area to contain this volume of air. • In broad terms you must construct a can that mounts to the end of the gun that
