#Standardization

Hello everyone and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday. Although I have shot the Q Honey Badger chambered in 300 Blackout every day and almost every night for the past week, I thought I’d give you all a break from my new romance with thirty cal kurz (band name, I call it). Listening to me gush about 300BLK is probably akin to that friend back in high school that “discovered” Led Zeppelin years after everyone was already sick of Stairway To Heaven and only listened to the deep tracks while smoking cloves and drinking Keystone Light. Anyway, next week we return with metering and shockingly, a suppressed K-sized Pistol Caliber Carbine. This week I’d like to open up a discussion about the potential for a set of universally accepted Suppressor Evaluation Standards that could implemented industry-wide.

Controversy over small arms is nothing new. Back in the early 1950s, when the 7.62x51mm was called the “.30 Light Rifle” and NATO still believed it could achieve the goal of a universal standard rifle, there was (quite naturally, given the large number of parties involved) what was called more than once “The Great Rifle Controversy”. An apt name, I think.