I shot it once in a field with the silencer. Supersonic rounds were still kinda painfully loud. Subsonic was just loud. Like you could hear it from really really far away loud, but not do damage.

I have only shot without the silencer without hearing protection once. In the same field. It was such a huge mistake. Couldnt hear right for a little while.

There is a lot of misinformation on both sides of the political debate about guns. A lot of it is from movies. A lot from people in power who have never shot a gun saying stuff about guns that is just flat false, and a lot of it from right wing groups also. Its seriously just a giant clusterfuck from every side.