Sounds like a fart

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That is awesome. And maybe this is a dumb question but... Would that actually make the report of the gun louder?

I think it might direct the sound so it may sound louder if you're the one getting shot

If you can hear the shot, it missed you

these are pistol rounds and thus most likely subsonic. If it's a supersonic round then yes, but it is possible to hear the shot before you get hit. Possibly even more likely with this.

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Yes but in a more forward direction. The shooter would actually get a tiiiiiiiny less sharp crack.

source : People have tried these for fun and personally I own a muzzle brake on one of my pistols.

Likely not to an appreciable degree. Horns make a sound louder by giving the thing producing the sound more air to push against, so the pressure waves actually build up and travel through the air instead of just pushing it around.

Meanwhile a gunshot is loud because it's already a massive pressure wave. Silencers work by containing the pressure spike and allowing the gas to expand and cool.

In fact, muzzle cones were added to rifles and machine guns during the early 20th century for a similar reason, to suppress the muzzle flash from the unburnt powder hitting fresh air and combusting by giving the gases a place to expand and cool. They did also tend to direct some of the concussion away from the shooter, but it's debatable how effective this was.

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