Reply #14: More on silencers...

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Far from the modern popular and erroneous notion that suppressors were created for organized criminals and assassins, when Hiram P. Maxim (son of Maxim machine gun creator Hiram Stevens Maxim) patented the first suppressor in 1910 his goal was to minimize noise pollution. Ads for the product featured a character called “Dr. Shush” and Maxim himself imploring those at a firing range to “hush,” with another noting, “Girls like it when there’s no nerve-ripping report.

http://www.ammoland.com/2011/11/21/gun-suppressors/

So the chicks dig them too! Really, it is a good tool to introduce someone to the shooting sports.