• ours@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They are suppressors (a.k.a. silencers). They work just like your car’s muffler and both were invented by the same guy: the grandson of the inventor of the Maxim machine gun.

    It will certainly not make these monster guns movie-quiet but it reduces their massive sound and flash signature making it harder to locate where they were shot from.

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      1 year ago

      They work just like your car’s muffler and both were invented by the same guy: the grandson of the inventor of the Maxim machine gun.

      Well that’s a cool TIL.