The SilencerCo Maxim 50 is a .50 caliber

muzzle-loading rifle A muzzle-loading rifle is a Muzzleloader, muzzle-loaded Small arms and light weapons, small arm that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore, and is loaded from the muzzle of the barrel rather than the breech. Historically they were developed ...

with an integrated

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, which is a Traditions Vortek Strikerfire with a SilencerCo suppressor welded onto the end of a shortened barrel. As a muzzleloader, the rifle is not considered a firearm under the

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; and the integrated suppressor is exempt from the US

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because it is permanently attached to the rifle. When fired, the rifle has a report of 139.9

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. The firearm does not have iron sights, so requires a

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. The recoil is reported to be less than for a non-suppressed .50 caliber in-line rifle.

References

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