Suppressors..
 

Am I the only one annoyed when anonymous users or anyone refers to them on the site as silencers?

Your new on this forum, but that was actually one of the first topics brought up. :D

It is kind of annoying, I always write "sound suppressor" or "suppressor" although I don't put "silencer" in the same category of improper designation as one would for "clip" and "magazine".

There should be some kind of guide line page on the site.

It would have stuff like "use proper terminology"
Suppresor instead of Silencer
Magazine not clip
No gaming mods
No phaser gunz

that kind of stuff

I thought we have a rule portion here that explains all that. Most of the time, people with common sense knows what they are putting down, but we do get ignorants coming around who don't know better.

We all started like that, I remember when I thought Deagle was an actual gun, call Magazines a clip and didn't know the difference between calibers and thought the M16 design was a complete piece of shit compared to the AK47, but I know better. It's Desert Eagle, I know the difference between mags and clips, caliber, and the M16 rifles are one of my favorite designs. Needs improvements, but it isn't like it sucks so hard as one would think. Otherwise, casualities in modern warfare with M16s would be really high if a soldier's M16 jams as bad as the hate calls it.

Haha, yeah, I have flamed people on other forums for clips, and silencers, here I just quietly edit it out.

One thing that's come to bug me is the phrase "carbine assault rifle" that people use when referring to firearms like the M4 and G36K. I'm pretty sure it's redundant...
Well, there really isn't a reason to point it out to us, as I'm sure most of us know the difference. Most mistakes like that are made by anonymous editors.

Yeah, it almost seems like we need a guideline page for all the CoD gun experts.

I agree 1234

My dad is a major offender of improperly using "clip". He's 53 and he has known clip as the "proper" term for magazine most of life. I constantly correct him on this, but you can't teach an old dog new tricks. :o

I was teaching my friends how to professionally use guns today and one of them commented on how the gun wasn't loaded with an "ammunition clip". I took the gun away from him and chastized him until he got the message. I don't tolerate improper designation! :D

Thank you GM, jsut thank for you doing that. In fact I have refused to buy magazines from comanies whose print ads say clip. I have even flamed gun MANUFACTERERS for doing that. haha.

Like those Marlin .22 magazines that say on the package "Magazine clip", just so those assholes who adamantly say clip have some unfair leverage on the argument. I too hate that.

Well, it's not necessarily wrong to do so, just that "silencer" as a name for a can leads people to think of the magic Hollywood "thing that makes a gun silent" as opposed to the real "thing that makes a gun more silent that it would otherwise be." Suppressor is more or less just an attempt to make a name people find it harder to misinterpret.

Wasn't that what the creator of the first suppressor called it, though?

Hiram Maxim called his the "Maxim Silencer."

That is true, and I believe the whole thing comes from the fact that few sound suppressing devices actually make a gun's report completely slient.

the first time I've heard a REAL suppressor fired, I was surprised by the still semi loud sound, but still had the confidence to keep my ears off.

You'll notice though that when ballistic analysts check firearms with suppressors in indoor ranges, they still wear hearing protection. That's because if the suppressor fails, they are going deaf.

I was outside the first time I heard suppressors. In the indoor range, the only other suppressed weapon I saw was a Walther P22. this was also the place I first got a feel for a Sten gun

I just calmly refer them to this page. :P

BTW: I'm new to the forum too, but I've been around the main site for a while.

I've favorited it. Now if someone messes that up again, I can draw that site like a gun. :D