Everybody had one on their rifles. M4s, AKs, carbines, even that antiquated looking Socom thingamajig Rourke uses. Granted silencers are good while attempting commando-style assaults on the zombies but thats no reason for everyone to sport one. Curiously none of the pistols were silenced.
shareI figured it was so that if you kill one of the infected, you don't always alert all the others to where you are. I did notice they all has silencers and I also thought it was a good idea.
But maybe there is a film making reason, so that you can use cheaper / easier special effects for the gun flash?
"dont you hear that horrible screaming all around you? That screaming men call silence."
First, yes, they are silencers. "Suppressors" is valid as well, but that weird quasi pedantic push to call them suppressors because that was more "accurate" I think has finally just faded away.
To the point, while there may have indeed been a desire to limit the amount of noise, the simple reality of the matter is that unless they came across huge stashes of subsonic ammo, the amount of sound suppression would not likely have made a significant difference as far as "alerting" other zombies. Now I'm talking real life reality, not movie reality. If anything, a far more practical reason to have silencers is to protect ones own hearing. If one had to spend a fair bit of time firing a weapon on a regular basis, tracking down a silencer would be very useful indeed to limit the amount of hearing damage over time.
Presumably the cops would have had access to a reasonable stash of them? I assume the pistols generally lacked them because coming across a pistol with a threaded barrel to accept a silencer (and then finding the appropriate silencer given the calibre of the pistol) would have been far less likely to occur.
Any of you guys ever fired a gun indoors? One rifle shot and you're deaf for an hour....ten and you never hear again. Fifty? Blood drips out of your ears.
shareAny of you guys ever fired a gun indoors? One rifle shot and you're deaf for an hour....ten and you never hear again. Fifty? Blood drips out of your ears.
It's a great idea from a tactical perspective. It prevents alerting more distant enemies *and* it really helps preserve a shooter's hearing, especially indoors.
The unrealistic part is that everybody actually had one. They're expensive and hard to come by for civilians (start law allowance required, need ATF paper, and they're spendy) and only military special forces would generally be issued them. SWAT teams might have them, too, but not rank and file patrol cops.
From a production standpoint its cheaper in regards FX & sound to use suppressors !
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