In what ways are other guns affected by silencers? From my point of view silencers don't seem to have very many draw backs at all, it might take an extra bullet at long range but that is nothing compared having the hit box halved when it can take a good second to set another shot up with a sniper, which in CoD time means someone has time to kill you a good 5-6 times over with any other gun. The snipers are useless in this game, even if the player is consistent the guns still fail a fair amount of the time. . If I had £1 for every time I had a hitmarker on a clear head shot. . . You can thank the guys over defending the AR corner in the nerf AR's thread, who think 0 recoil 2 hit kill full automatic guns with perfect hipfire is fine for all the sniper nerfs
Most of the people who hate snipers, saying Quick Scoping is really easy and snipers need continual nerfs blah blah blah are the guys running round throwing IED's and C4 everywhere . . . if they can't see the irony in that, well, good luck in life to them.
Btw I noticed the silencer nerf when the update notes stated it was a reload time nerf, IW like to do secret patches.