![]() ![]() The person controlling them may, but that is like calling a baseball bat an Assault Bat because it can be used to hit someone over the head. The AR15 or the AK47 do not assault anyone or anything. Assault is not something a piece of machinery can do – well, until Google creates the army of robots that will take over the planet –it is simply a machine. The AR15 doesn’t do anything by itself so why did it get a bad name? This vitriol is largely because of a name that was given to this rifle and a lot of other rifles actually that is inaccurate if you ask me. Now, my wife’s original point was valid and that is sometimes, preppers give themselves a bad name or turn people off due to their actions, but the paranoia over a little rifle is completely unfounded in my opinion. The AR in AR15 was originally for ArmaLite. ![]() If I am talking about that rifle, it’s called the AR and that name has come to mean different things to people over the years. ![]() That is simply because it’s what we call it. Ar stands for how to#She knows how to handle, load, shoot, take apart, clean and reassemble every firearm we have, but I imagine she couldn’t tell you the model number for any of them, except for maybe the AR15. She doesn’t really care about the model numbers either. She only knows the weapons in our house by either the caliber (the 9 or the 40) or type, (shotgun). Now to be fair to my wife, she didn’t know anything about these or any firearm model numbers. Savage, another manufacturer doesn’t use letters in the front of the model number, but numbers (10/110, 10 BA). Ruger has a line of pistols that start with SR and I am not sure, but I would bet that stands for Sturm Ruger (the company’s real name) (SR9, SR40, SR1911). For instance Glock handguns are all named with a G- in the front. Naming a firearm in this fashion isn’t novel either. If you want to read more about the company you can do that on their Wikipedia page. ArmaLite named all of their rifles AR- and then the appropriate number would follow. I had to look it up though because I forgot the manufacturer’s name, but the AR in AR15 is from the company that originally invented that rifle, ArmaLite. I quickly told her that what she was talking about was not correct – that AR does not stand for Assault Rifle. This right here in her mind was a simple example of how an issue like gun control is inflamed entirely based upon a bad naming choice. To prove this point, she said to me, “take the gun issue for example, the people who make guns are just asking for a fight by naming the most common firearm (AR15) an Assault Rifle”. It all boiled down to her saying that a lot of preppers give the entire concept of prepping a bad name. She started to make a point that in some cases, people who are into prepping either don’t show themselves in the most favorable light or outright repel others who might be interested in learning more about the subject of prepping by their actions. I was talking to my wife the other evening about several topics that are common to prepping. ![]()
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