Does every body know what "AR" in AR15 stands for?

I was just curious about what people think they know or actually know.

What does "AR" stand for?

 

Armalite it is/was a manufacturer

 

Close enough....
"Armalite Rifle"
Some people think it stands for something else.
Can you guess what that is?

 

Yeah...some think it means "ASSAULT RIFLE" Low information voters eh?

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Yeah...some think it means "ASSAULT RIFLE" Low information voters eh?

 

Low information is right, we all know a few of them......

 

And a lot of them post here on gun issues telling us how great gun control would work if we passed just one more law.

 

Armalite Rifle. Designed by Eugene Stoner.

 

A couple years ago MSNBC told me it was Automatic Rifle. Then I was told Assault Rifle. Then I was shown a picture of one with a banana clip known as a AK47:




Then they wanted me to register to vote......so the collective could make them illegal. Now I am happy sucking on my 16 oz Slurpy watching more MSM. Wish McDonald would start delivery service.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxtu228bYFw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Skip to 2:45 for the golden egg.

 

I was guessing ARmalite but I guess it's Armalite Rifle. Either way close enough. I can see how Assault Rifle could be an understandable conclusion to the uninformed though.

Every time I see that I feel like I'm about to have a brain aneurism.

 

The ones that do not know a machinegun from a whole in the wall, or a whole Azz.

 

Bwahahahahaha! What an idiot!

 

AR: автоматическая винтовка

 

Everyone knows its Armalite Rifle. Right?

 

A week ago at lunch some of the guys were talking about guns. I pulled up a picture of an AR a local gun store was raffling off and I hoped to win. Sure enough one of the guys was an old fudd that got pissed off and started running his mouth about how nobody needs a rifle like that, blah blah blah military grade weapons, blah blah blah only designed for killing people. The hilarious point is that he had no objection to hunting with an M1 carbine and in fact back when he did hunt he used a semi auto rifle for deer and a semi auto shotgun for birds.

 

He was against "military grade weapons" and he used an M1 carbine for hunting? Man, what a hypocrite (or idiot).

 

I told him my grandpa used an M1 carbine for hunting and he had no objection to it. He said his deer rifle was semi too which I'm sure was mentioned because he wanted to relate to me.

 

My Grandpa used a M1 Garand for hunting Japs.
The whole "military grade" argument is laughable.

 

I met many turds like that.

In my early years, I had an UZI carbine, it came with a short SMG solid dummy barrel and I made a dummy magazine, a defective 30 rounder, I gutted and epoxied a long piece of wood into, cut back and filed smooth, it could NOT accept ammo.

I went to a well known large outdoor range in Long Island and walking to the shooting area loaded with cased guns and a couple of ammo cans.

I passed the Skeet / Trap ranges and had my dummy UZI on a sling, a State Trooper came to Me smiling, explained someone had complained, I showed him my dummy UZI and explained all about it, he was happy and we chatted about guns and Elmer Fudd and he let me continue on my way to the main range, these Elmer Fudds are as bad as any other Anti Gun advocates, they may own guns but are still Anti Gun.

 

It's especially pointless when the AR was designed for civilian use almost a decade before the military adopted it and the civi ones aren't full auto capable.

 

My friend's grandpa is a bit of a fudd too. He's a Vietnam vet he's open to gun ownership but he thinks you're stupid if you own a gun he doesn't like. My friend doesn't know much about guns so when he found out about my gun he HAD to tell his grandpa about it and of course he called it an M16 and of course grandpa didn't want to see it because it's trash. Having seen first hand what a flop the M16A1 was I can understand the lack of interest in the AR platform so I didn't bother to defend it. Later on I got a Beretta 92. Once again he had to tell grandpa about it. Again he wasn't interested. He said the only two guns he needed was his 30-30 and his 1911.

I later found out his guilty pleasure is that he wants to get an M14. Honestly I can't blame him for that.

 

Now I wonder about that, the first AR was the AR-10 a select fire rifle, developed by Eugene Stoner and not available to the public, the DOD was responsible for the changes to the AR-10 and the subsequent development of a select fire XM-16 and non of this was available during the patenting phase till much after AFAIN in any case.

 

I bought an M1A in 1993.
Best purchase I ever made.

 

Oh tryin to get me with that double talk huh?

 

Lots of people have a favorite gun and stories about the ones they dislike, I hear lots of stories from service people that hate the 1911 or the M-16, and often, the had to deal with worn out or poorly serviced guns.

I had a range client tell me 1911's were trash because he had one and it shot badly.

I took it too the firing line and truth is it patterned like a shotgun, I took it into the shop and examined it, no rifling in the barrel, it was worn smooth, I changed the barrel to a match grade barrel / bushing / barrel link, polished and fitted it, other stuff too, test fired it, I had it grouping like a match grade pistol !

The guns owner could not believe it was the same gun.