Forgotten Weapons
This is a community dedicated to discussion around historical arms, mechanically unique arms, and Ian McCollum's Forgotten Weapons content. Posts requesting an identification of a particular gun (or other arm) are welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenWeapons
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/
Rules:
1) Treat Others in a Civil Manner. This is not the place to deride others for their race, sexuality, or etc. Personal insults of other members are not welcome here. Neither are calls for violence.
2) No Contemporary Politics Historical politics that influenced designs or adoption of designs are excluded from this rule. Acknowledgement of existing laws to explain designs is also permissable, so long as comments aren't in made to advocate or oppose a policy. Let's not make this a place where we battle over which color ties our politicians should have, or the issues of today.
3) No Advertising This rule doesn't apply to posting historical advertisements or showing more contemporary ads as a means of displaying information on an appropriate topic. The aim of this rule is to combat spam/irrelevant advertising campaigns.
4) Keep Post on Topic This rule will be enforced with leeway. Just keep it related to arms or Forgotten Weapons or closely adjacent content. If you feel you have something that's worth posting here that isn't about either of those (and doesn't violate other rules) feel free to reach out to a mod.
5) No NSFW Content Please refrain from posting uncensored extreme gore or sexualized content. If censored these posts may be fine.
Post Guide Lines
These are suggestions not rules.
-Provide a duration for videos. eg. [12:34]
-Provide a year to either indicate when a specific design was produced, patented, or released. If you have an older design being used in a recent conflict provide the year the picture was taken. Dates should be included to help contextualize, not necessarily give exact periods.
-Post a full URL, on mobile devices it can be hard to tell what you're clicking on if you only see "(Link)".
-Posts do not have to be just firearms. Blades, bows, etc. are also welcome.
Adjacent Communities
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I was told that if it's small caliber like .22 it's a silencer because it really is silent (you only hear the bolt cycle) and if it's a large caliber it's a suppressor because it doesn't silence the report, only suppresses most of it.
It’s an entirely arbitrary distinction with no formal guidelines.
“Suppressor” is primarily pushed online as a kind of softer term to rebrand “silencers” from sounding less scary. In the same way that “modern sporting rifle” has been (mostly unsuccessfully) pushed as a rebranding of more scary terms for semi-auto, detachable mag rifles.
It’s all word games.
As far as I’m concerned “silencer” is perfectly acceptable. It’s the term on numerous patents, term used in the nomenclature or even names of companies in the industry, and the term used in the stamp application. If somebody tries to “correct” you, realize that “silencer” is essentially an aspirational term for the device and always has been.
In reality they're just interchangeable terms. Suppressor is increasingly popular because the term silencer can be seen as misleading (as it doesn't make them silent just less loud). IMO use either or both, people will know what you're talking about either way.