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Old 07-02-2009, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Vangelis View Post
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?
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