JAR - Just Another Rifle (secret service comment)

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Secret Service counter sniper team looks for other snipers
Posted: 09:29 AM ET
By Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Look up at any presidential event and you’re likely
to see them: men dressed in black, armed to the teeth, looking back.

It’s no secret; they’re with the Secret Service.

On Tuesday at the inauguration, members of the U.S. Secret Service’s
elite counter sniper unit will be out in force, taking up roof-top positions
along Pennsylvania Avenue and elsewhere as the presidential motorcade glides
past throngs of people.

The Secret Service doesn’t mind you knowing they are up there. In fact,
their mere presence has a deterrent effect, they say. But they are mum about
many other details about the teams, including how many teams will be deployed,
how long they work, and about their custom firearms. Unit commander Lt. Bernard
Hall jokingly calls the weapon a JAR — “Just Another Rifle.”

Since the unit formed in 1971, the unit has never had to fire a JAR to
safeguard a protectee.

“When you look at that parade on the day of the inauguration, every
building that we will pass by… has been surveyed, and that is done by the
Counter Sniper Team,” said Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan. “They will be
familiar with every building; they will be familiar with every potential
threat.”

I think we have a new name for our semi-auto military replica rifles

 

[John828]

Then I want one in .308. It will be my JAR-10.

Just what I needed--just another rifle. Afore long, I will have a JAG, a JAP, and a JAB. If that keeps up, I will need a JAW.


JAG -- Just another gun
JAP -- Just another pistol
JAB -- Just another bow
JAW -- Just another wife

 

[RobMoore]

If it were just another rifle, an off-the-shelf Rem 700 would do, but it isn't JAR. Just another rifle doesn't apply to in-house hand-built, customized to the shooter expensive pieces like those. I get the intent. Its the indian not the arrow, but I always thought naming your customized rifle the JAR was pretentious.

 

[TexasRifleman]

but I always thought naming your customized rifle the JAR was pretentious.

It's not pretentious, it's Operational Security.

We don't "need" to know what rifle they use, so they apply a silly name to it.

 

[Kind of Blued]

I've been hoping "SAMS rifle" would pick up; "Semi-Auto Military-Styled"... Sounds friendly.

 

[Guns and more]

No problem with my new Jar-15.

 

[expvideo]

No problem with my new Jar-15.

Same here, I'm appreciating my JAR-15 quite a bit

 

[Shung]

who needs a CCW when you have JAR's watchin for you..

 

[MT GUNNY]

Goverment Funded Jar's, Makes you feel all warm and Fuzzy Dont it?

 

[Duke of Doubt]

I've known a bunch of JAGs and dated a bunch of JAPs. But I've never shot a JAR.

 

[John828]

Duke,

Thanks for the memories. When I was about ten or eleven, my dad bought a little piece of land. Over a six month period, he cleared off enough of it for a driveway, house and yard. Anyway, here's what you reminded me of: we always had a brushpile burning and I always had my faithful BB gun with me. One day, when I was romping through the woods, I found some old Mason jars. Somehow I got the idea to fill those jars with gasoline,and one by one I would throw them in the fire and then shoot them. Needless, to say my dad was not as impressed with the fireballs as I was.

Thanks again for the memories of shooting JARs.

 

[Duke of Doubt]

Neat.

I love hiking in the local woods, much of which used to be farmland a century or two ago, sometimes less. I find all sorts of things, including mason jars. Abandoned farmhouses, cars, occasionally neat stuff. A friend and I even played "House of Horrors" and assaulted an abandoned house deep in the (comparatively new) woods one day. I personally shotgunned a parcheesi game left behind on a card table.