Suppressor - Forgotten Weapons

Knight’s Armament Silent Revolving Rifle

December 15, 2025 Ian McCollum 45

In the early 1990s, Knight’s Armament was approached by an unnamed agency looking for a very specialized weapon. It needed to be a repeating firearm that left no brass behind while being effectively silent and […]

PSS: Russia’s Silent Captive-Piston Handgun

December 13, 2025 Ian McCollum 25

The PSS is a semiautomatic pistol using captive piston ammunition to achieve a comparable level of sound suppression to a .22 pistol with a good normal suppressor. It was developed to replace a couple multi-barrel […]

Type 85: China’s Special Forces SMG (Regular and Silenced Versions)

October 8, 2025 Ian McCollum 1

Jason Clower’s video on the development and use of the Type 85: The Type 85 was a submachine gun developed in the 1980s in China to replace the failure that was the Type 79. It […]

An Interesting Silenced Bulgarian Makarov

September 29, 2025 Ian McCollum 3

Today we are taking a look at an interesting silenced Bulgarian Makarov with a mechanism added to lock the slide. This sort of feature is usually thought of as a sneaky way to avoid ejecting […]

A Modern Integrally Suppressed Pistol for Everyone: The SilencerCo Maxim 9

August 20, 2025 Ian McCollum 41

SilencerCo announced the Maxim-9 pistol in late 2015. Having gone through some huge growth of the past few years, the company wanted to expand its capabilities and thought that the time was right for a […]

Reproduction HEL-E4A Vietnam M16 Silencer by International Milspec Co

August 1, 2025 Ian McCollum 1

The Human Engineering Lab’s HEL-E4A was the most commonly used suppressor used in the Vietnam War. It was the result of a series of suppressor designs from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds HEL which were developed […]

G150: Swiss Silenced Guerrilla Anti-Material Rifle

July 21, 2025 Ian McCollum 36

The G150 is a rifle specifically assembled by and for the Swiss P-26 organization: a very secretive stay-behind group intended to fight foreign occupiers of Switzerland. It was one of a series of such organizations […]

A Brief History of B&T Silencers – Impuls to Rotex to PrintX

September 20, 2024 Ian McCollum 4

Today I’m at B&T in Thun, Switzerland taking a look at the whole history of the company’s suppressors. They began back in the 90s when founder Karl Brügger was working as a machinist and had […]

Welrod .32 at the Range: British SOE’s Silent Assassin’s Pistol

August 17, 2024 Ian McCollum 25

I had the chance to take a .32ACP Welrod MkII out to the range for a bit of shooting. These use a combination of baffles and rubber wipes, and the suppressor’s effectiveness quickly drops from […]

The Experimental SOE Welrod MkI Prototype

August 12, 2024 Ian McCollum 17

The Welrod was a program to develop a silent assassination pistol for British SOE (Special Operations Executive) late in 1942. It needed to be chambered in the .32 ACP cartridge, be effective to a range […]