Suppressors..

[Vangelis]

Originally Posted by RedJedRevolver

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

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.