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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Silencer" is the older and frankly BS term. Silencers don't silence anything outside of video games and movies. They more "suppress" the noise and muffle it a bit.

Basically it's the difference of firing it outside and having your ears ring forever or just for a long time

[–] CptOblivius 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a BS term it is the patented term used by Percy Maxim when he invented it.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US916885

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, but it when most people hear the name, they expect what they see in media and not what it is in real life