What's the point of a silencer on a 5.56x45 AR 15?

[Bypass]

Just wondering if there is something I'm missing.

 

[BIKER13]

they hurt your ears so bad from the noise and the recoil breaks your shoulders but folks like shiny trinkets in their possession

 

[aFarewellToKings]

What is the point of subsonic .223/5.56?
Why not just use .22LR?

 

[UptaCamp]

Suppressing muzzle flash/visual signature on 5.56 rifles.

 

[Jackie Graham]

You know that a silence quadruples the power. Add an evil brace and you have more power than a 50BMG.

 

[rumrunner55]

For Instagram

 

[fastfish66]

they hurt your ears so bad from the noise and the recoil breaks your shoulders but folks like shiny trinkets in their possession

Come on Don,we'reso old we can't hear anyway.

 

[medium187mph]

couldn’t afford .300blk?

 

[November Sierra]

PPE

 

[GpCapt Mandrake]

The same reason the military uses them...

You think they would just put all that extra weight on the end of their AR's and .308's for looks?

They reduce muzzle flash, but more importantly they reduce the muzzle signature of firearms (especially rifles) that they are attached to. A properly suppressed firearm will still entail having a sonic boom from the rifle round breaking the sound barrier, but you will be much less likely to know from which direction the shot was fired...