Introduction by Keith Anderson

My first book, "How To Build Practical Firearm Suppressors" was primarily about improvised suppressors, of the type which can be made from common hardware store items, with little expense and no expertise. There are a number of books with designs in this category. They all have several things in common. They're cheap, easy to build, and fun to play with. Very fun. It is an uncommon, (and very dull,) breed of man who can fire off a clip from an effectively suppressed weapon without bouncing up and down giggling. Another thing most of them have in common, mine included, is that you wouldn't really want one with you on a combat mission. Improvised suppressors just cannot be built to combat quality standards. They break when banged around, they blow up, the baffles wear out quickly, and most of them destroy accuracy.

The purpose of this book is to explain procedures for building genuine, combat quality suppressors for military type arms. If you just want to make something cheap to play around with, on the weekends in a short amount of time, then pick up a copy of my first book. Real quality does not come for under ten dollars, or without any skills to speak of. This book is for people who want the real deal. The designs presented, here, while being simple to construct, make use of an advanced baffle design that is optimized for this construction method. They compete quite nicely with commercial suppressors in terms of effectiveness, durability, and size required for the unit.

On the subject of noise level testing, I regret to say that I never got to use the proper sound testing equipment as described in the book "Silencer History and Performance".   I searched far and wide for that piece of equipment and finally found it for rent for five hundred bucks for two weeks. Sorry, but that's above the call of duty, and so at this time I can't give exact decibel reduction ratings for each model. What I can tell you is that I've shot a lot of different commercial suppressors for comparison. And when I was developing my own design, I tried every variation you can possibly imagine in baffle design, packing material, and so on, trying every idea I could think of that would work for this construction method.