Never a silencer....
Always a suppressor.
#83. Re “Never a silencer”. Well, is a hitman uses it to kill someone, the victim was “silenced”.
Isn’t English fun?
Wrong. No one called them suppressors until the 80’s. The American Silencer Association only changed their name to refer to ‘Suppressor’ in 2014. The NFA from 1934 defined them legally as Silencers. It is fine to say they don’t fully ‘silence’ but to claim they were always called suppressors is totally wrong.