Popular Mechanics has a gif from SilencerCo showing how silences/suppressors/etc work, which is cool enough by itself.
But it also has an infographic showing Texas by far has the largest number of silencers, at 86K+ ...almost double the next closest state, which is Georgia.
Texans like silencers because the pigs won't know what hit them.
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Madison
NRA Life Member Texas Firearms Coalition member