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Coming in at almost half the weight, an inch shorter and about a third of the cost of the Salvo 12, the new Utas Octave is a carbon fiber wrapped 12-gauge suppressor that can knock down a scattergun's report to as little as 135 decibels.

In what is being billed as the first commercially available shotgun suppressor on the market, Silencerco has just unveiled the Salvo 12 which purports to reduce a shotgun blast to 132 decibels at the ear.

In what is being billed as the first commercially available shotgun suppressor on the market, Silencerco has just unveiled the Salvo 12 which purports to reduce a shotgun blast to 132 decibels at the ear.