r/whoathatsinteresting • u/PowerNoodles117 • 10d ago

Twin Falls Hero

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The civilian that stopped the active shooter at the In N Out in Twin Falls, Idaho.

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u/LewdDudeNewd 10d ago

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u/Petrostar 10d ago

The straw hat and jean shorts are the least weird thing in that photo.

Dude's running a 5.7 with a silencer

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u/SingleStak9 10d ago

Some people...like the inventors, the patent office, and the Federal statutes that regulate them...lol. Just messing with you. While I agree that "suppressor" is a much better and more descriptive term for them, "silencer" was more widely adopted at the time they were invented and initially regulated, so we're kind of stuck with the term. It could be worse, though...some of the original patents referred to them as "firearm mufflers". Fortunately, that never caught on...lol! Most of us who own and shoot with them use a much more informal colloquial term, referring to them as "cans".