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[DesG]

Hiram P Maxim invented the silencer and called his invention a silencer. Hard to argue with that!

I use the term 'bullet heads' to avoid the inevitable follow up question "do you mean live rounds or just the heads?"

[ZaksGod]

some people are never wrong and know everything and will never be told anything

[Turnup]

Hiram P Maxim invented the silencer and called his invention a silencer. Hard to argue with that!

I use the term 'bullet heads' to avoid the inevitable follow up question "do you mean live rounds or just the heads?"

But in the UK we are subject to UK firearms law and not Maxim's patent. Not arguing with it, take it up with the Home Office.

I just hate the term, not because I don't know what it means, but because it gives credibility to the term "bullet" to mean a cartridge, which is plain wrong and gives rise to the ambiguity you mention. While "bullet head" clearly means "bullet", it comes to pass that "bullet" might mean "bullet" or "cartridge", and that is why I don't like "bullet head".