Silencer

The man who shot Tom had a gun with a silencer on it.

Mennad used a crudely fashioned silencer to shoot Baya.

Bill made a DIY silencer for his rifle.

Opening the desk drawer, which was almost empty, Pembroke removed an automatic pistol fitted with a silencer.

Put a silencer on it.

The Justice Department has defended the law for decades, arguing that it doesn’t ban silencers but simply governs how a buyer can acquire one. Still, late last week, prosecutors requested a 30-day pause in the criminal case against a firearms dealer found with an unregistered silencer because “the Department of Justice is re-evaluating its litigation positions regarding silencers.”

Before the fitting of silencers to these locomotives was completed by the end of 1961, they were very noisy in operation, but the effect of the silencer has been remarkable.