[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Someone invented firearm silencers!? I wonder how they did that.

[marktwain]

Hiram Maxim invented the firearm muffler patented in 1908. He called it a firearm silencer. He also invented the car muffler.

[TYVets]

Someone invented firearm silencers!? I wonder how they did that.

Hollywood invented silencers.

In the real world noise suppressors are used by the rest of the world.