High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A suppressor, sound suppressor, sound moderator, or silencer, is a device either attached to or part of the barrel of a firearm to reduce the amount of noise and flash generated by firing the weapon. Although suppressors are popularly known as silencers, this is misleading since no suppressor completely eliminates the noise of discharging a firearm. It generally takes the form of a cylindrically shaped metal tube with various internal mechanisms to reduce the sound of firing by slowing the escaping propellant gas and sometimes by reducing the velocity of the bullet. Suppressors were regularly used by agents of the United States Office of Strategic Services, who favored the newly-designed High Standard HDM .22 Long Rifle pistol during World War II.

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