@FosterI was talking about awesome... he metaed so hard given that one of the first posts I made was that I had a flash suppressor and he some how knew where I was even if I had one.
Yeah, we chewed on him about that 3 or 4 pages ago.
Although my major gripe was in getting that close without effective suppressive-fire (a pistol is not going to do much) without getting shot, and pretty much doing within the same post (well after losing initiative) bested your man in hand-to hand, followed by bludgeoning the utter shit out of you with a four pound brick of steel.
What irked me the most was that he didn't see how such things, if done in real life, would be considered murder.
"Flash-hiders" were actually just shrouds to prevent machine-gunners from essentially being flash-banged every time they fired a round at night.
These were also used on the jungle-carbine because the Japanese tended to love night-assaults and the short-barrel made for one heck of a fireball.
The general idea was that if you were within the narrow cone where the flash of a Flash-hidden MG were visible, you wouldn't be alive to see it for very long.
Sound suppressors act as same, but to a much *MUCH* greater extent, plus reducing noise.
-General-issue Military/police "silencers" are mostly just to preserve hearing in CQB (since indoors is an echo-chamber), while special-purpose "marksman" one are beefed-up flash-suppressors with sound-damping, and then ofc there's the infamous covert/clandestine variety.
Muzzle-brakes do the exact opposite.
re-itinerating:
Military flash suppressors are designed to reduce the muzzle flash from the weapon to preserve the shooter's night vision, usually by diverting the incandescent gases to the sides, away from the line of sight of the shooter, and to secondarily reduce the flash visible to the enemy. Military forces engaging in night combat are still visible when firing, especially with night vision gear, and must move quickly after firing to avoid receiving return fire.
Some work more holistically than others.
anyways, it also doesn't help that your character-sheet isn't posted for quick-reference; even so, the write up on page 2 does not mention such attachments, and has listed weapons that historically did not at all have flash-suppressors during their service-life.
Locating your shooting position was justified in that your shooter tended to maintain a single position, and Hunter Thompson was more-or-less trained to spot such things from indicators besides simply the flash (plus, it was established that an untrained hoodlum managed to figure-out roughly where your shots were from).
