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Different silencer designs. Gun rights advocates, gun media and the firearms industry generally claim that the word "silencer" is defined as meaning total silence, while "suppressor" or "moderator" are defined as meaning only reduced sound intensity, in spite of its original definition.
Free gun: A term for a General Purpose Machine Gun used by Door gunners that is not installed on a weapon mount but a bungee/sling allowing more free movement. Frizzen: An L-shaped piece of steel hinged at the rear used in flintlock firearms. The flint scraping the steel throws a shower of sparks into the flash pan.
Support, Silencer is the proper legal name and term used by its inventor. Suppressor is a slang term developed in the 1960s.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:55, 26 February 2018 (UTC) Support per WP:COMMONNAME. --K.e.coffman 04:46, 27 February 2018 (UTC) Support per WP:COMMONNAME and the fact that it is the legal term. My forms for ownership ...
The frame or receiver of a machine gun, and any combination of parts intended to make a machine gun, is legally defined as a machine gun. [8] For example, according to the ATF, "A Glock Switch is a part which was designed and intended for use in converting a semi-automatic Glock pistol into a machine gun; therefore, it is a "machine gun" as ...
The following pages contain lists of legal terms: List of Latin legal terms; List of legal abbreviations; List of legal abbreviations (canon law) on Wiktionary: Appendix: English legal terms; Appendix: Glossary of legal terms
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. The justices by a 5-4 ...
A Law Reference Collection, 2011, ISBN 1624680003 and ISBN 978-1-62468-000-7; Trinxet, Salvador. Trinxet Reverse Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms, 2011, ISBN 1624680011 and ISBN 978-1-62468-001-4. Raistrick, Donald. Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations. 3rd ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2008. This book focuses more on British ...
These legal glossary terms were compiled using the following sources: justice.gov, Merriam-Webster and Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute. Show comments Advertisement