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>>440451 I believe you may be confusing flash hiders with suppressors. The term 'silencer' and 'suppressor' are basically interchangeable. The silencer name is out of fashion, and today these noise muffling devices that attach to ends of gun barrels are more commonly called suppressors. This is seen as a more accurate name, as these devices do not make the shot completely silent, but reduce the noise the fired round makes by a number of decibels. Furthermore, the word 'silencer' is a bit of a brand name since that was the name American inventor Hiram Maxim called his (and the world's) first commercially successful model around 1902. Maxim gave his device the trademarked name, the 'Maxim Silencer' as the OP shows and what this thread is about (the image was far too large to post in /k/ and Seafire was gracious enough to post it here). So silencer is regarded as a brand name, sort of in the same way that 'Band Aid' is synonymous with small adhesive bandages. Pretty much everyone calls them Band Aids, no matter who manufactures them. But since the above original picture was of a Maxim Silencer, and since Maxim invented them, it seems strangely inappropriate to rail so much that they are currently referred to as suppressors. Pic: Advanced Armament Corp. (AAC) Silencer Shoot poster advertisement. They are a large manufacturer of silencers/suppressors. If they too are cool about calling their product silencers, I don't see what the problem is.
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