// Who we are
Independent. Empirical. Uncompromised.
The commercial industry standard for silencer sound performance.
PEW Science is an independent testing and research organization for the Title II firearm industry. We built the Silencer Sound Standard™ to answer a question the industry had left undefined: what actually counts as hearing safe.
Every Sound Signature Review starts with real gunshot analysis, measured on calibrated instrumentation, and ends with a Suppression Rating™ and a PEW-SOFT™ hazard map you can compare across silencers, hosts, and cartridges. No manufacturer or third party has influenced or controlled anything published here.
The data lives in the member reviews and in the Jay Situation podcast, where the numbers get explained in plain language. Basic Suppression Ratings stay free, because knowing what is hearing safe should not be gatekept.