“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
“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
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
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