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Re:UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan by criddell on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @10:41AM (#42318519)
They are called silencers. It's the number one definition for the word in my dictionary.
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Re:UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan by yyuugg on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @10:51AM (#42318650)
Gun owners don't call them silencers. Movies call them silencers and non gun owners watch movies so that word has entered the lexicon.

But it's extremely incorrect-- suppressors don't silence guns. Suppressed firearms are still loud.

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Re:UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan by criddell on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @12:02PM (#42319450)
> Gun owners don't call them silencers.

In the US where there are around 100 million gun owners, you can't say much about the group collectively other than they own at least one gun.

Lots of gun owners (including me) call them silencers.

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Re:UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan by tstrimple on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @11:35AM (#42319141)
This is nonsense. Even the companies that make them often call them silencers. And your information is wildly out of date on how quiet suppressed subsonic ammo can be.

https://www.silencercentral.com/shop/silencers/rifle

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