Changing the name of what we call our rifle platform

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Originally Posted by ray1970

There's already an MSR. It is a Steyr AUG clone.

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If I am not mistaken, I am sure it is MSAR.

I agree with changing the terminology.

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Originally Posted by SideShow Bob

If I am not mistaken, I am sure it is MSAR.

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Shit. I think you're right. My bad.

My Fiancee was talking about this earlier, talking about how assault rifles should be banned. Being new to the shooting world, I informed her that they ARE illegal, that what I own, and many others, are AR-15s. The AR stands for Armalite, the original designer of the AR15. I think the term assault rifle was people just running away and assuming thats what the AR meant, so anything that is a black rifle is an assault rifle, and anything thats a black pistol is a glock.

My favorite rifle isn't an AR. It's a ST-15.

How about we name it O-15 ... everybody will worship it now.

Since my M1 was built specifically to be used by a soldier in a war, does that make it a true Assault Rifle? And since my Bushmaster carbine was built for civilian purchase and use how could it possibly be called a Assault Rifle?

And why is the identical carbine my next door neighbor has in his deputy Sheriff's car called a Patrol Rifle and mine is called an Assault Rifle? And because my Bushmaster is black would it be racist to speak of it in a derogatory way?

I can live with Modern Sporting Rifle and will use that term for now.

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Originally Posted by dwalker460

I would have to look, but I believe the AR stands for Automatic Rifle. CAR stood for Colt Automatic Rifle, yada yada.

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the AR does stand for Automatic Rifle, though produced by Armalite

I didn't know what AR stood for so I just call mine Aaron's Reaper. [Tooth]

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Originally Posted by BuffCyclist

My Fiancee was talking about this earlier, talking about how assault rifles should be banned. Being new to the shooting world, I informed her that they ARE illegal, that what I own, and many others, are AR-15s. The AR stands for Armalite, the original designer of the AR15. I think the term assault rifle was people just running away and assuming thats what the AR meant, so anything that is a black rifle is an assault rifle, and anything thats a black pistol is a glock.

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