Why Do We Call Them AR's?

[Muddyboots]

Have "we" created our own problem by calling ALL semi-automatic similar built rifles AR's? The first AR15 was made by Armalite Corporation which resulted in using the first 2 letters of their name for the rifle they produced. It has nothing to do with Assault Rifle (AR) designation by media and others. Savage calls their semi-automatic MSR which is correct terminology. S&W calls them M&P.

FYI The Federal Government ordered similar rifles for domestic agencies and called them "Personal Defense Weapons".

So why do "we" call them generically AR's when that term is so misunderstood by most people and a firestorm topic in the media?

So what do you think? Big deal? Don't care?

 

[Mrvmax]

I think it's too late to change, you will ever get everyone to stop calling them AR's.

 

[Muddyboots]

I think it's too late to change, you will ever get everyone to stop calling them AR's.

Totally agree BUT we need to stop feeding the "MACHINE"!

 

[mongo4567]

It is the same reason that I refuse to call a firearm a weapon. In my role instructing I always say firearm and gently correct those who say weapon. I know that it often comes from military training.

 

[338weatherby]

I think it's too late to change, you will ever get everyone to stop calling them AR's.

Just like they will never stop using the term "gun violence". Yet you never hear "knife violence", "hand violence", "vehicular violence", etc.

 

[Muddyboots]

All part of the master plan.

 

[Ol' Red]

The media that writes for firearms refers to them as "modern sporting rifles". But yet if I say I just bought a new modern sporting rifle, I get funny looks. Maybe the "MACHINE" is like a bull raised for bullfighting. You just have to feed it, fight it, and defeat it.

 

[Muddyboots]

Maybe barbecue the "bull"?

 

[Ol' Red]

Just like they will never stop using the term "gun violence". Yet you never hear "knife violence", "hand violence", "vehicular violence", etc.

And gun suicides are classified as gun violence too. Not one of my guns are violent. They just sit if the safe until time to play.

 

[Ol' Red]

Maybe barbecue the "bull"?

First we butcher the bull, then the BBQ begins.

 

[Muddyboots]

Ok let's not get this thread deleted or cause issues. It can go off rails fast.

 

[Ol' Red]

Too late for me. I'm going to Dickey's BBQ for dinner.

 

[338weatherby]

And gun suicides are classified as gun violence too. Not one of my guns are violent. They just sit if the safe until time to play.

New naming for all things scary!