Talk:Baza/@comment-83.23.131.97-20171124005306/@comment-25254386-20171125085107

Eh, no. Military background or not, silencer is the correct term. That's what they're called, that's what they were patented under, that's the correct name. Suppressor is a term overly technical gun-savvies dubbed it as because silencers do not technically silence a gun, they suppress it.

Also, modern silencers do not use the wipe method anymore, that's the old way (like you said, because they wore out too fast). Nowadays the machining is precise enough to allow the round to travel through it with barely any gap between it and the silencer's chambers, acting as though there were a wipe but without physically contacting or directly influencing the bullet.

And where exactly did you mention specialized rounds? As far as I can tell I was the first to bring it up. The only thing you said was "Depending on the weapon you're using, the bullets may already be barely supersonic...", which does not necessarily tell me you were referencing subsonic ammunition.