• ArchRecord@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    It’s an entirely innocuous statement. What are they supposed to say instead?

    • “15 Assault Rifle” or “Assault Rifle 15” just makes no sense.
    • “AR-15” isn’t understood by all people to mean an assault rifle, since not everyone knows gun names.
    • “Assault Rifle” doesn’t tell people which kind of assault rifle it is, since the AR in AR-15 stands for ArmaLite.

    It’s a statement that gives the most possible context to the reader about:

    • What design of assault rifle it is
    • What type of gun it is in general
    • While also allowing readers to then learn the definition of the sole term “AR-15” over time