A snubber offers impedance proportional to velocity. Thus, it's conceivable that a snubber could seize and act as a hard stop, axial to the snubber, once a critical impulse is met.

This would be analogous to a building door that would slam open and closed due to pressure variations being solved by adding a door closer, which is a combination spring + snubber.

The problem would be quantifying how to design the snubber for the pipe.

It's one thing if we can measure it, or if we have a solid grasp on how the input converts to piping response, but we don't always have the info necessary to solve this.