I'm glad I don't have to worry about how loud my gun is. If one of my 177 or .22 cal pellet guns isn't sufficiently powerful or flat shooting enough I simply grab my .22 mag. or my .243 or my .30-06. I shot a woodchuck out my livingroom window with my .223 just a couple days ago. It would suck living someplace where I had to worry about how much noise my gun is making just to dispatch some vermin.