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Time4Fun: Please allow me to share minimum information on my passion of guns. I’m writing this sincerely with intentions only to educate you with very basic firearm knowledge so you can communicate about them more effectively.
On top you have an AR-15. AR stands for ArmaLite which was the original manufacturing company in the 1960s and 15 is just a model designation. This is by far America’s most popular semiautomatic rifle. Today there are many manufacturers but the core design has been standardized. AR-15s are as American as cherry pie and Chevrolet.
On bottom you have an AK-47. AK stands for “Avtomat Kalashnikova” which the Russian translation is roughly automatic Kalashnikov (the last name of the man credited with the invention) rifle and the 47 part is the introduction model year of 1947. The USSR, Russia, and all of the former Soviet countries made a bajillion of these. They are less popular (but growing and still popular) in the US than the AR-15. The easiest way to recognize one is that banana curved shape magazine.
On both rifles there are military versions that are full automatic machine guns, but civilian models fire only one bullet when you press the trigger. You can go down a rabbit hole on both, but that’s about all you need to know to sound like you know what you’re talking about amongst the broskis. Thanks for reading this.
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