Those are pretty terrible options to surpress, since once they are made subsonic to avoid the supersonic crack, they have little energy to actually inflict wounds due to how light the bullets are (still deadly, just very underpowered). He would’ve been better off with a 9mm or a 45, but both would’ve been a little harder to conceal.
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There’s a reason James Bond used a .25 and .30 with a suppressor.
Those are pretty terrible options to surpress, since once they are made subsonic to avoid the supersonic crack, they have little energy to actually inflict wounds due to how light the bullets are (still deadly, just very underpowered). He would’ve been better off with a 9mm or a 45, but both would’ve been a little harder to conceal.
A British gun nut wrote to Fleming about how terrible the .25acp is ballistically, which is why Fleming later made bond use a Walther PPK in a .32acp. The gun nut also inspired him to create Q.