What does "AR" stand for?

[makeita2]

I have gotton lots of anwers to the question. The top 3:
Assault Rifle, Automatic Rifle and Armalite Rifle. What is it?
Thanks.

 

[cslinger]

As far as I know it is just Armalite. Not Armalite Rifle.

Chris

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Yep, Armalite, although for years I thought it was Assault Rifle. Assault Rifle just seemed to make sense, but at that time, I didn't know that ARs were made by anyone other than Colt.

 

[.41Dude]

Knowing the government, it most likely means.

Automatic,20shot,blackplastic,aluminum,gruntstick,Rifle.

Just kidding. Armalite sound correct.

 

[SDC]

It stands for "Armalite"; when Gene Stoner was Armalite's head designer, he had a whole series of "AR"s, including the AR-7, AR-10, AR-15, AR-17, AR-18, etc.

 

[Dionysusigma]

Early Colt AR-15s, their magazines, and their operators manuals were marked with ArmaLite’s name. Colt’s retained the AR-15 designation on commercial rifles. To this day Colt’s has a model designation with the letters AR, which stands for “ArmaLiteâ€.

http://www.armalite.com/library/history/history.htm

'Nuff said.

 

[King]

Armalite (as others have noted).

 

[skunyun]

Meaning of the AR in AR15 ?

Armalite is the well known meaning but actually the real meaning came from the first GI that fired the weapon

He fired off a full 20 round mag and said :

"Alll Rightttyyy then"

 

[RustyHammer]

Whew ... I thought someone was going to say it was a Navy SEAL designation.

That's a relief!

(ARRRR ARRRR ARRRR)

/Rusty

 

[Correia]

Awful Reliability?