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The US call them silencers due to the first patents filed by designers. Designers like Maxim, who called his creation a Silencer for whatever reason.

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US1482805

AR15 wrote:The US call them silencers due to the first patents filed by designers. Designers like Maxim, who called his creation a Silencer for whatever reason.

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US1482805

The majority of the shooting fraternity in the US call them suppressors. If you go back and look to the link you posted you'll notice that most of the patents there refer to them as suppressors. I've heard the occasional reference to them as silencers, (usually from the media) but no, over here we call them suppressors.

Another word I won't use is "shooters" preferring instead to use sportsmen/women.

Blu wrote:

AR15 wrote:The US call them silencers due to the first patents filed by designers. Designers like Maxim, who called his creation a Silencer for whatever reason.

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US1482805

The majority of the shooting fraternity in the US call them suppressors. If you go back and look to the link you posted you'll notice that most of the patents there refer to them as suppressors. I've heard the occasional reference to them as silencers, (usually from the media) but no, over here we call them suppressors.

Another word I won't use is "shooters" preferring instead to use sportsmen/women.

Doh! They should have called their company suppressor co...

https://silencerco.com/

BamBam wrote:

Blu wrote:

AR15 wrote:The US call them silencers due to the first patents filed by designers. Designers like Maxim, who called his creation a Silencer for whatever reason.

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US1482805

The majority of the shooting fraternity in the US call them suppressors. If you go back and look to the link you posted you'll notice that most of the patents there refer to them as suppressors. I've heard the occasional reference to them as silencers, (usually from the media) but no, over here we call them suppressors.

Another word I won't use is "shooters" preferring instead to use sportsmen/women.

Doh! They should have called their company suppressor co...

https://silencerco.com/

Their company, they can call it whatever they like.

And this might be of interest.

http://www.gem-tech.com/store/pc/viewCo ... ?idpage=34

The Michigan law is about to change as well. As from next January they become legal to hunt with.

http://www.advanced-armament.com
Somebody should tell AAC too .

http://www.deadairsilencers.com
And dead air.

Sure fire are 50/50
http://www.surefire.com/tactical-equipm ... ssors.html

Guys, we could do the cock waving think for as long as it takes. For every link you throw up showing "silencers" I could throw up a half dozen showing suppressors. I live here fella's, have done for a long time and you can bank on it when I tell you that very few folks here call them silencers. Now if you were to move to Hollywood well then that's a different matter, they have silencers everywhere.

http://www.mississippiautoarms.com/supp ... 4_157.html
http://libertycans.net/
http://yhm.net/sound-suppression/rifle-suppressors.html
http://www.surefire.com/tactical-equipm ... ssors.html
http://www.gem-tech.com/store/pc/home.asp
http://www.onlythebestfirearms.com/suppressors.html

AAC part of Freedom Group (they own Remington) have this to say:
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/0 ... -silencer/