Month: December 2022

Sound suppressors, also known as “moderators,” (or by the popular misnomer “silencer”) are as old as modern firearms themselves. Advances in smokeless propellant in the late 19th century increased the “bang” of shooting a firearm, due to the higher pressures they generate. Hiram Percy Maxim, son of the famed inventor of the Maxim Gun, is credited with designing the first suppressor for firearms around the turn of the 20th century.