On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:09:18 -0400, Ken Vale wrote:

Could you enclose the cylinder inside some type of shell the forced the
gases to go out the barrel? (a custom built gun and not a modification)
Would this cause the remaining rounds to cook off if the gases travelled
all around the cylinder?

It'd be a lot easier to just not use a design that is inherently
difficult to silence.

Ken (who knows next to nothing about guns)

No problem, and actually the Russian Nagant revolver does somewhat what
you describe, only by using the cartridge case itself to make the seal.