Just echoing what others have mentioned about the noise level. Suppressors do NOT make shots silent. I've shot a few suppressed guns and know people well who own them in the US.
You will absolutely still hear the shot when suppressed. It just damages your hearing less, that's all. It's very positive and some European countries require it because there's really almost no downsides other than another thing to buy and a longer barrel/looks (if you don't like it).
I know one guy well who went to great pains to try and make an actual silenced gun. He built a .22 pistol, found the right expensive subsonic rounds (to keep it under the speed of sound so as to keep the projectile from making a lot of noise) and the right can. And yeah, it's theoretically silent. But it still makes a racket from the metal clashing against metal, and it's a .22lr, and even when he held the slide so it would do nothing you could still hear it quite well within a maybe 50m radius. Way under gunshot levels, but you could hear it.
Anyways, here's to less hearing problems if silencers are permitted, as they really should be.
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