On the range with SilencerCo’s all-in-one suppressed Maxim 9 pistol

Video shot and edited by Nathan Fitch. (video link)

LIBERTYVILLE, TEXAS—Last Friday, Ars took a road trip deep into the heart of Texas to meet up with SilencerCo’s chief revenue officer Jason Schauble and get a private demo of the company’s new Maxim 9 pistol. Unlike SilencerCo’s other products—which we tested about a year ago—the Maxim 9 isn’t just a suppressor that you attach onto the barrel of a firearm. The Maxim is SilencerCo’s first integrally suppressed pistol: in other words, it’s a weapon and a silencer, all in one single unit.

The Maxim 9 as it’s currently being demoed is actually a preproduction design, marrying the back half of a 9mm Smith & Wesson M&P to a custom-designed eccentric suppressor/receiver/barrel front assembly. The most visually distinctive part of the weapon is that eccentric suppressor—so called because it’s not a cylindrical design but rather hangs down from the front of the barrel like some kind of weird science-fiction pistol.