Gerg, Respectfully, I'll take a crack at your query. The quick answer is no. The flash suppressor, hypothetically, is s supposed to make it harder for an opposing force to see the shooter. The muzzle blast/flash would still hurt the shooter's night vision. Since, night visions scopes are readily, and cheapily, available, the flash supprssor issue is kind of moot.

The manufacturs got BATF approval to use "muzzle breaks" rather than "muzzle suppressors", so nothing really changed. Merely, terminolgy, in effect.

Oh, also, I'm highly read in "N" word history, as well in "C" word history. Near as I can surmise, in net effect, they are 2 sides of the same coin. Both are totalitarinistic(?), and totally brutal and sadistic. Frankly, I don't see how one can have a discussion of the dangers of one, without the other.