I live on the border fence line of pasture lands that deer frequent during evenings.  I have often complained to the police of hearing rifle shots near by.  I am against hunting near neighborhoods.  Then there is the practice firing range down in the gulch, where even policemen practice and hunters zero in their scopes on hunting rifles.  It is isolated and safe, after awhile you get use to the noise.  Common sense should tell you to keep your distance from neighborhoods.  But there are the ignorant, wild west idiots that complain the loudest and demand their constitutional rights while they scare the h... out of the neighbors.   I don't see the reason for a silencer.  Use earplugs, like everybody else.