On another forum I hang out on, there is an American fellow who has lived in Germany for decades and raised a family there, who gives us insights into what the gun scene is like there. In fact his son works in a German gun store.
We were discussing suppressor cleaning, and since such items are far more common there, he had some interesting things to say about sloppy or lazy maintenance of them. Because we pay so much for ours and they are a big deal for us, we tend to pay special attention to them. But in Germany, where they are nearly disposable items that many don't think twice about, some people have found out the hard way how NOT to clean and store a suppressor.
From my friend in Germany;
"A few years ago they decided that everyone who shoots guns should be using a suppressor, as with the socialized health insurance, it only makes sense to protect everyone's hearing. Everyone ran out and started buying suppressor, and my son's gun store made a killing threading barrels. Now, a few years later, all of these suppressor are blowing apart, because the remaining powder dust turns to sulphuric acid when wet, and eats the aluminium suppressor, and they are disentigrating, sometimes with every amusing results."
"So he and his boss have these silencer dryers made, and they sell them as fast as they come into the shop. It is just a hair dryer on a timer, with some plastic hose, and that have them made in China, including the logo. They pay about 6 dollars for them. But, it is important to dry out your silencer. Especially if you store the weapon barrel up, with the silencer on, as the acid has run into the barrel, and my son loves to sell replacement Blazer barrels for over a thousand dollars each."
We were discussing suppressor cleaning, and since such items are far more common there, he had some interesting things to say about sloppy or lazy maintenance of them. Because we pay so much for ours and they are a big deal for us, we tend to pay special attention to them. But in Germany, where they are nearly disposable items that many don't think twice about, some people have found out the hard way how NOT to clean and store a suppressor.
From my friend in Germany;
"A few years ago they decided that everyone who shoots guns should be using a suppressor, as with the socialized health insurance, it only makes sense to protect everyone's hearing. Everyone ran out and started buying suppressor, and my son's gun store made a killing threading barrels. Now, a few years later, all of these suppressor are blowing apart, because the remaining powder dust turns to sulphuric acid when wet, and eats the aluminium suppressor, and they are disentigrating, sometimes with every amusing results."
"So he and his boss have these silencer dryers made, and they sell them as fast as they come into the shop. It is just a hair dryer on a timer, with some plastic hose, and that have them made in China, including the logo. They pay about 6 dollars for them. But, it is important to dry out your silencer. Especially if you store the weapon barrel up, with the silencer on, as the acid has run into the barrel, and my son loves to sell replacement Blazer barrels for over a thousand dollars each."
