How Games Are Lying To Us About Silencers – Loadout

Whether it’s protruding from the barrel of James Bond’s Walther PPK in GoldenEye 007 or being gently screwed on to Snake’s SOCOM in Metal Gear Solid, video games and movies love to use the suppressor. But did you know that suppressors, or silencers, as they’re more commonly known, are in fact anything but “silent.” In reality, the pop culture silencer as we know it is a myth, and here’s why.

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