Thanks for welcoming me back guys and for the snappy reply from you baskets. I'm glad I'm not going to have to miss out on the conversations entirely.

Edit: 
Random note for the technologically minded. Suppressors as we know them wouldn't work in this setting. At least not on their own. A modern suppressor works by A. Capturing excess gas from the weapon to reduce the sound created by the gas outside of the barrel and B. Slowing down the bullet as much as possible (ideally to subsonic speeds) to reduce the volume of the sonic boom created by the bullet. Seeing as in the setting bullets travel many many times the velocity of our current ones (which i assume means guns require a form of advanced recoil compensation to be safe to operate) slowing the bullet down isn't as much of an option. A suppressor could still be employed for excess gas however the likely solution for the sonic boom would be altering the bullet shape to modify aerodynamics and thus reduce the sonic boom that way. The modified bullets would likely be lighter as a result and so have less force on impact with targets though and be more prone to drifting. Sorry for the "rant" just got thinking about it and rambled.