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Comment by criddell

1 year ago

They are called silencers. It's the number one definition for the word in my dictionary.

Gun owners don't call them silencers. Movies call them silencers and non gun owners watch movies so that word has entered the lexicon.

But it's extremely incorrect-- suppressors don't silence guns. Suppressed firearms are still loud.

  • > Gun owners don't call them silencers.

    In the US where there are around 100 million gun owners, you can't say much about the group collectively other than they own at least one gun.

    Lots of gun owners (including me) call them silencers.