User blog comment:101stranger/Ah, the wonderful world of UNSC infantry weapons/@comment-1760854-20100415130713

two things. one, ajax is correct, it is impossible to suppress a magnetically accelerated weapon, as munitions are suppressed by lowering their speed to slightly below the speed of sound. This wouldn't work as gauss round move at mach 30-40 so your suppressor would have to be almost a mile long. also, slowing down a gauss round ruins the whole concept of a gauss round, as at that point you might as well use a suppressed M7. second, what about an MGL style weapon