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why would the AR in AR-15 stand for ArmaLite Rifle if it's name is the ArmaLite AR-15? why would you name it the ArmaLite ArmaLite Rifle-15 thats stupid as fuck (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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the us government literally calls it the ar-15 armalite rifle in the first source on wikipedia, ergo the AR must stand for something different than ArmaLite Rifle. it stands for assault rifle. I'm dying on this hill. i refuse to believe that a gun manufacturing company is that shit at naming conventions. fuck you

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

GNU's Not Unix's Not Unix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

AR stands for Armalite. The AR17 is a shotgun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Counterpoint, if it kills fascists then the name doesn’t matter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Actually it's short for "the ArmaLite AR-pattern assault rifle model AR-15 assault rifle by the ArmaLite assault rifle company"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

The Soviets used to name certain weapons this way and it ruled. Me and my comrades smashing Nazi tanks with our 76mm Divisional Gun Model 1942 (Factory named after Stalin-3).