Agreed! Never ceases to amaze me how frequently “we” fall into the trap of using the language of our enemies. From headlines to rebuttals, if they control the language, they win before the argument even begins.

And you will not be going ‘silent’ with a suppressor purchase either no matter where you purchase it from, tax or no tax.

We need to stop doing this.

Suppressors are not ‘silencers’, no matter how you want to phrase it.

‘silence’ is the absence of sound or noise. Suppressors do not make the firing sound or noise ‘absent’. They ‘suppress’ (and even the term ‘suppressors’ has issues as well) firing sound in terms of reducing to a lower level only marginally.

The anti-gun love using the term ‘silencer’ to paint false pictures with words conjuring up images in ignorant peoples minds, feeding the confirmation bias of anti-gun people, of firearms use being ‘undetectable’ because they are ‘silent’ when a ‘silencer’ is used thus a great threat. Its a complete lie. We just had an article presenting such an ignorant picture from an anti-gun person.

We need to stop using the term ‘silencer’.