Theohazard
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Once I was selling a SilencerCo Saker to a customer and I referred to it as a silencer. That's when another costumer who had overheard us decided to march halfway across the store and correct me; he informed me that "suppressor" was the only correct term.
That annoyed the heck out of me. I told him that no, "silencer" was actually the most correct term considering the original inventor used that word to name his invention, and that was the primary term used for most of the 20th century until the 80s when a gun writer made up the term "sound suppressor" to be more politically correct. To say he looked confused after hearing this would be an understatement...
I don't usually correct people on terminology; I use the terms "silencer", "suppressor", and "can" interchangeably. But I get so tired of people who "correct" others by whining, "It's not a silencer, it's a suppressor!" when actually "silencer" is the most correct term from both a historical standpoint and a legal standpoint.
That annoyed the heck out of me. I told him that no, "silencer" was actually the most correct term considering the original inventor used that word to name his invention, and that was the primary term used for most of the 20th century until the 80s when a gun writer made up the term "sound suppressor" to be more politically correct. To say he looked confused after hearing this would be an understatement...
I don't usually correct people on terminology; I use the terms "silencer", "suppressor", and "can" interchangeably. But I get so tired of people who "correct" others by whining, "It's not a silencer, it's a suppressor!" when actually "silencer" is the most correct term from both a historical standpoint and a legal standpoint.