I don't know about other houses but at mine it isn't too noticeable. I was running my generator and I went into a room which is right inside where the generator was running and I couldn't hear it all that much.
My Springfield M1A. I put a USGI walnut stock on it. A dummy full auto lockout switch and arm to fill the gaps in the stock and a USGI flash hider with bayonet lug. Also a USGI fiberglass handguard. Looks like the real deal M14. Looks pretty good with the bayonet attached.
Between my brother and I we basically destroyed everything.
One Christmas I got a new ninja turtles van and broke it that day because my brother pushed it down the stairs.
Interesting. I'm only a year and a half into Lexus ownership. I was always a Toyota hater but somehow I came to the dark side. Now my wife wants an LX or a GX. I think she's been looking at the LX