3D printed suppressor for sale

[Rastus]

Again, you would think so, wouldn't you?

I have not found any great reviews about them.

[nosimij]

We use 3D plastic printing technology (I am aware that there is a big difference here) but there are limitations to size and they can be brittle.  The plastic is very susceptible to grain direction fractures. As an example we have to resign a lot around torque and screws to make the printed plastic parts function for design verification. I would suspect, without doing a ton of research, that they are having to have a cross section area limitation and limited sharp edges.    They would also be VERY slow and power hungry.  We have parts that you can hold in your hand that take a day to print.  Complex geometry, step size, smaller size = smoother,  and having to build for best strength would all factor into making the design optimized for sound.  Using this printer as a production tool the design would need to be optimized/compromised for cost as much as sound level. They still have a price point/ threshold to hit. They will get there but we may need more/new technology to get there. 

Still form the design perspective if you could prove a design improvement to pressure flow or heat transfer resulting in a DB change it would be a great tool.  printing it before you make a machine to make it for production like a casting could lead to some great leaps forward.

[Big Frank]

Now SIG is making a titanium 3D printed 9mm suppressor, so it wasn't just a passing fad. Or it's one that isn't over yet. This suppressor is a modular design that can be configured to 7 different lengths and looks kind of like an alien spaceship.

https://www.sigsauer.com/modx-9.html

[tombogan03884]

So, just what do you know about sound propagation ?
So, it cuts 5.56 by 30 Db ? Where ? At the muzzle ? From the shooters perspective ?
How was it measured ?
What angle was it tested at ?
And according to the guy who invented it it's a SILENCER.

[Big Frank]

Hiram Percy Maxim, the inventor of the SILENCER, called them SILENCERS too. I don't have a problem with people using the same term the inventor of the SILENCER did. If you want to argue that it's not a silencer, it's a suppressor, dig up his nearly 85 year old body and argue with him. SIG calls this a suppressor like most people do. If you want to argue with them that they're wrong, go ahead. I'll accept that term also.

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

Hiram Percy Maxim, the inventor of the SILENCER, called them SILENCERS too. I don't have a problem with people using the same term the inventor of the SILENCER did. If you want to argue that it's not a silencer, it's a suppressor, dig up his nearly 85 year old body and argue with him. SIG calls this a suppressor like most people do. If you want to argue with them that they're wrong, go ahead. I'll accept that term also.

Give the man a brownie point !   
Called it the Maxim Silencer Co. too.   
He actually was building on some of his father's work on silencing gas systems and applied it to cars and guns.
It really makes sense when you realize that all 3 are gases under pressure.
Before Smokeless powder the old man had also been working with baffles and other ways of filtering out fouling.

[Big Frank]

The mufflers he invented for cars aren't regulated but mufflers for firearms are. Why?

[tombogan03884]

$200 fine if you don't have one, $200 punitive tax if you want the other ?