How to Make a Silencer for a 9mm

Gun Silencer Manual

Materials needed:

• aluminum can

• drain hose connector

• basin gasket

Magazine Band Bushing

Insert bushing into basin Glue bushing/basin gas-gasket. ket assembly onto top of con nector.

Pistol Silencer Manual

Cut off portion of funnel-shaped seal as shown. (Turn it inside out, then cut around it with modeling knife.)

: Fit adapter onto top of can, tighten band clamp, and install weapon.

Improvised 22lr Magazine

Materials needed: Insert bushing into connec-

• drain trap connector (small)

: Fit adapter onto top of can.

Tape second can onto first with metal repair tape.

: Install on weapon.

Improvised Guns

ALUMINUM CAN PREPARATION

Bare cans can be used with little preparation. Rotate the pull tabs 180 degrees and pull straight up on them; they should pop right off. Then carefully insert the tip of your little finger into the can and push the flap back as far as it will go. Unless you're a real klutz, you ought to be able to do this without cutting yourself.

A simple bare can can easily be bolstered from the outside with a drink koozie and a wipe.

Improvized Shot Guns Improvised Weapons Manual

Materials needed:

• aluminum can

• drink koozie

Use the top of the can to trace a circle on one of those oblong foam rubber wrist rests used with CRT keyboards. Cut it out with scissors. Turn the can upside down, place the disk on the bottom of the can, and push the koozie down over disk and can.

Improvised Weapons Designs

Install on weapon.

Another design involves removing the top of the can and augmenting it from the inside.

Pistol Silencer Design

Cut out top of can. The type of can opener shown here works perfectly. (Don't cut in the groove running around rim; cut further in. Run the handle of the can opener around inside of rim to smooth back jagged edges.)

Install on weapon.

Another design involves removing the top of the can and augmenting it from the inside.

Materials needed:

• aluminum can

• steel wool pads (two medium-

to coarse-grade pads)

: Punch 1/4" hole in center of can bottom.

Trg Silencer

Unroll steel wool pads and reroll them around dowel. Use medium or coarser grades; finer grades are crumbly and flammable. (Remember the old Boy Scout stunt of starting a fire by rubbing a piece of flint against a file and letting the sparks drop onto a ball of fine steel wool?)

Lithium Grease Suppressor

Insert pointed end of dowel into hole in bottom of can. Keeping the dowel centered and fixed in this position, work steel wool into can. Then remove dowel; this will leave a channel in steel wool running length of can.

(There is a possibility that the force of the muzzle blast might fluff up the steel wool enough to occlude the channel made by the dowel. You can give the steel wool a little more cohesion by squirting several beads of lithium-based grease lengthwise and crosswise on the unrolled pads and coating the inside of the can with a generous layer of the same. You can also try using a larger dowel to increase the diameter of the channel.)

Improvized Shot Guns

Smaller V-8 cans can be packed with steel wool just like pop cans. Use only one steel wool pad per can.

Oil Can Silencer Rifle

Materials needed:

• bubbler (also called "soaker")

• natural sponge (trimmed to size and shape shown)

Garden Hose Bubblers

Bubblers are attached to garden hoses and used to irrigate shrubs. They have a plastic "pot scrubber" type element inside to diffuse water flow.

Cut or saw bubbler shell in two around seam. Remove and discard diffusing element.

Drill 1/4"-3/8" hole in end of bubbler shell.

Oil Filter Gun Silencer Improvized Shot Guns

Install on weapon.

Wet sponge, wring it out, Tape halves of shell back and fit it into bubbler shell. together.

Install on weapon.

OIL FILTER SILENCERS

Oil filters consist of a perforated steel sleeve surrounded by a sound-dampening filler element enclosed in a steel shell. Why hasn't anyone thought of using one as a silencer before? The oil filters used with the adapters shown here have diameters of 3 3/4 inches and 3 inches. They have a second layer of sheet metal about 1/4 inch under their top ends, which makes a good double baffle for the bullet to pass through. Look inside the oil filters to make sure there are no brackets or fixtures at the top end that might interfere with the transit of the bullet.

Magazine Band Bushing