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To: ChildOfThe60s

“They are NOT “silencers”. They are sound suppressors”

Hiram Maxim named them silencers. That’s what he got his product named in the patent. But what did he know over modern shooting sports priggery?


28 posted on 01/18/2017 3:59:47 PM PST by DesertRhino
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To: DesertRhino
"Hiram Maxim named them silencers. That’s what he got his product named in the patent. But what did he know over modern shooting sports priggery?"

Priggery! LOL! I'll be using that in a sentence tomorrow.

41 posted on 01/18/2017 4:12:51 PM PST by 10mm
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To: DesertRhino

Well, a suppressor by any other name is still a suppressor.


55 posted on 01/18/2017 5:29:19 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there")
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