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A different Welrod used by the Belgians?

According to Paul Dubrunfaut, (Keeper of Firearms; Royal Belgium Military Museum), from the Military Channel documentary series "Secret War", episode Deadliest Design (2012); for the Welrod unit in their collection, from the Belgian resistance:

Magazine capacity = 7 (not 6 or 8)

Ammunition = "765 Browning" (7.65 mm)

Sorry, I don't know how/if to cite a TV documentary. 74.60.29.141 (talk) 19:10, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Layer Cake Reference

While a Welrod is seen in the film Layer Cake (2004) it isn't used to kill anyone. It is merely seen on display. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.228.26.249 (talk) 22:50, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. It's also unreliably sourced and violates WP:POPCULTURE and Wikipedia:WikiProject Firearms#Pop culture. I have removed it again. Woodroar (talk) 00:32, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn’t this article use UK English?

Suppressor is an Americanism that became popular in the late 90s, especially after a c. 2010-2015 NRA euphemism campaign, motivated to change US regulations. The traditional UK (and US) term is silencer, and the article title is Silencer (firearms). Per wp:ties and wp:notcensored, we should be using the common name, not a US gun industry euphemism. —Dennis Bratland (talk) 23:17, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

wp:notcensored seems a bit of a stretch, but wp:ties seems to apply, so I weakly agree - it's hardly a serious issue for the article. (Hohum ^@) 14:29, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The behavior of many individuals seems to be that they are deeply, deeply offended by the word "silencer". I cited a long list of articles on this spanning a couple decades on the silencer talk page. In the 1980s and 1990s, the gun media would happily call a silencer a silencer and nobody noticed. By the 2010s, the word "suppressor" in the US was orthodox P.C., and "silencer" was politically incorrect. It is greeted in gun enthusiast circles as if it were profanity, as if you had yelled "fucking cunt whore cocksucker" in a church. I'm not exaggerating. I can't explain it.

The UK is lucky this ugly silencer/suppressor business didn't happen there. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:19, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The usual traditional British-English term is gun "silencer" rather than 'suppressor.' The term Muffler is used in US-English and the British-English term is again exhaust 'silencer' rather than 'suppressor.' The principal is the same for mufflers and suppressors with sound pressure being in general changed to waste heat.

As for British-English, the term 'suppressor' in the lede sentence may be as a consensus general acceptable as the Welrod is designed as a one piece pistol/silencer. In the Welrod#Design section, the term "silencer" would be used in British-English as the comparison with the exhaust 'silencer' (Muffler) is generally understood for the article. Perhaps there may be a editor consensus that the technical term Silencer (firearms) in the same Design section be used for a historical designed pistol, rather than the modern US euphemism(?) agljones(talk)20:12, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the OP. The OED indicates that silencer is a term for a device used to silence with specific reference to vehicle exhausts and firearms. It further indicates that "suppressor" does not have the same connotation and is more often used for devices which suppress electrical interference. I have updated the article accordingly. Andrew🐉(talk) 08:32, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Contradicting decibels

@Thumperward: it is my understanding that the differences are dependent on how far away the sensor is, room size, and environmental factors like temperature, altitude etc. Perhaps I can source a normal decibel level for the rounds. Not sure how you wanna resolve the contradictory info. - MTWEmperor (talk • contribs) 05:05, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The sources state 1 meter, 5 meters, and 10 feet distances, and in different directions, so is a "contradictory" template really applicable - shouldn't the article just mention the differences in metering? Also, the comparison "about as loud as a present-day passenger car" is pretty useless, comparing a very short sound with a steady one. (Hohum ^@) 15:01, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Adding the necessary clarification to the article body would, naturally, obviate the need for the tag. That's sort of the point of putting it there. Thanks. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 21:50, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

American assassin link.

CNN site reports the for-profit healthcare's CEO was gunned down in NY with a Welrod pistol or a modern "veterinary gun" derivative of it. Thus this article is likely to see lots of page visits in the coming days. 188.143.7.140 (talk) 12:52, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]