At this point, my employment ends at the end of the year. I do not have another job lined up. During the holidays, with a baby on the way, and a new house in the works, Merry Christmas to me.

No, this is not the post where I beg for money and put up a tip jar. That won’t happen. And, the facts are, that I’ll be OK financially by using savings (that’s what savings are for) for quite a while. And I won’t have to dip into my retirement funds or anything like that assuming this is as temporary as I think it will be (first quarter is a big hiring time for us financial guys). The kicker, though, is that I make some income by property investments and my banker has told me that, sorry, he can’t finance these things while I’m unemployed. Can’t blame the guy, really.

Still, this means that I’ll have to be a bit frugal with my spending and, as such, I don’t anticipate any new gun projects for the foreseeable future. I’ll finish building my AK since the cash in that project is already spent. So, personal type gun blogging won’t be happening. That said, once I get the Uncle household fully operational, I’ll start my next two projects. Project one is building a 9MM AR-15 (to shoot at the indoor range because it’s 20 degrees outside) and the other is a suppressor.

I’ve decided that I’d like to avoid paying the $200 NFA tax multiple times and want to get one suppressor that works on as many guns as is possible. The guys at Subguns.com recommend a 9MM and some even suggest a .45ACP. The 9mm suppressor can be used on 22LR, 380ACP, 9MM and a host of other calibers. In short, I’d have one suppressor that I could put on my SigArms 229, my Walther P22, my Ruger 10/22 and my soon to be finished 9mm AR-15. In fact, some folks say that the 9mm suppressor has better sound suppression than a lot of dedicated 22LR suppressors because its innards are steel and not aluminum. And some say the higher end models can be used on rifle cartridges, like 5.56 and 30 calibers. I don’t know if that is true in most cases as the pressure on rifle rounds is typically much, much higher than pistol rounds. I don’t recommend it and if you try it and blow up your suppressor, don’t blame me.

So, with that, anyone have a good recommendation for a 9MM suppressor? I like the CAC-9 because I can take it apart but it looks way too unwieldy for handguns use so it’s out. The AAC Striker gets good reviews too, as does SWR. And Gem-Tech, realizing that a lot of people are buying one suppressor for many guns, has a suppressor made specifically for that called The Trinity, which comes with a variety of mounting options.

Anyone out there got a recommendation?

Posted in uncategorized on December 20th, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |