Acronyms for Gun Rights

We live in an abbreviated world, we don’t say “Thank God It’s Friday” but TGIF. Chicks don’t watch “romantic comedies” by ROMCOMS, even Dancing with the Stars has become DWTS online. So if you’re new to guns, here’s a few abbreviations our gun rights patriots use:

2A – Second Amendment

ACP – Automatic Colt Pistol (e.g. .45 ACP)
AE – Action Express (e.g. .50 AE)
AIWB – Appendix Inside Waistband
AK – Avtomat Kalashnikova
ATF – Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
Anti – short for someone who is anti-Second Amendment
AOW – Any Other Weapon
AP – Armor Piercing
API – Armor Piercing, Incendiary
APT – Armor Piercing, Tracer
AR – Often short for AR15, originally as in Armalite
AWB – Assault Weapon Ban

BATFE – Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives
BAR – Browning Automatic Rifle
BC – ballistic coefficient
BCG – Bolt Carrier Group
BG – Bad Guy
BMG – Browning machine gun
BP – black powder
BT – Boat-Tailed
BUG – Backup Gun – Class 3, see NFA

C&R – Curio & Relic
Cal. – Caliber
CCDW – Carry Concealed Deadly Weapon
CCP – Concealed Carry Permit
CCRKBA – Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
CCW – Carry Concealed Weapon
CFP – Concealed Firearms Permit
CHL – Concealed Handgun License
CIII – Class 3, see NFA
CLDF – Civil Liberties Defense Foundation
CMP – Civillian Marksmanship Program
CQB – close quarters battle
CQC – close quarters combat
CSGV – Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, formerly National Coalition to Ban Handguns (NCBH)
CWP – Concealed Carry Permit

DA – Double Action
DAO – Double Action Only
DOD – Department of Defense
DOJ – Department of Justice

EBR – “Evil Black Rifle”

FFL – Federal Firearms License
FMJ – Full Metal Jacket
FN – Fabrique Nationale
FNH – Fabrique Nationale Herstal
FOID – Firearms Owner IDentification
FOP – Fraternal Order of Police
FOPA – Firearms Owner Protection Act
FP – Flat Point
FPS – Feet Per Second, commonly used to measure muzzle velocity
FTE – Failure to Eject (a malfunction)
FTF – Failure to Feed or Failure to Fire (a malfunction)

GA – gauge
GCA – Gun Control Act
GI – Government Issue
GOA – Gun Owners of America
GSSF – Glock Sport Shooting Foundation

HD – Home Defense
H&H – Holland & Holland
HP – Hollow Point
H&R – Harrington & Richardson

IDPA – International Defensive Pistol Association
ILA – Institute for Legislative Action (as in NRA-ILA)
IMR – Improved Military Rifle
IPSC – International Practical Shooting Confederation
IWB – Inside Waistband

JHP – Jacketed Hollow Point
JPFO – Jews for the Protection of Firearm Ownership
JSP – Jacketed Soft Point

LC – Long Colt (e.g. .45 LC)
LE – Law Enforcement
LEO – Law Enforcement Officer
LGS – Local Gun Store
LHP – Lead Hollow Point
LPK – Lower Parts Kit
LR – Long Rifle (e.g. .22 LR)
LRN – Lead, Round Nose
LSWC – Lead Semi-WadCutter

Mag – Magnum or short for magazine
MAIG – Mayors Against Illegal Guns
MG – Machine Gun
mm – millimeter
MOA – Minute of Arc/Angle

NAGR – National Association for Gun Rights
NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization (e.g 7.62 NATO a/k/a 7.62×51)
NBRSA – National Bench Rest Shooters Association
NCBH – National Coalition to Ban Handguns
NEF – New England Firearms
NFA – National Firearms Act
NICS – National Instant Criminal backgroud check System
NRA – National Rifle Association
NSSF – National Shooting Sports Foundation

OAL – Overall Length
OC – Open Carry or Oleoresin Capsicum (e.g. pepper spray)
O/U – Over/Under
OWB – Outside Waistband

PSI – Pounds per square Inch, measurement of pressure

Rem – Remington (e.g. .223 Rem)
RKBA – Right to Keep and Bear Arms
RNL – Round Nosed Lead
RRA – Rock River Arms

SA – Single Action or semi-auto
SA/DA – Single Action/Double Action
SAAMI – Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute
SAA – Single Action Army
SAF – Second Amendment Foundation
SBR – Short Barreled Rifle
SBS – Short Barreled Shotgun
SHOT – Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trades (e.g. SHOT Show)
SMG – Submachine gun
SJHP – Semijacketed Hollow Point
SJSP – Semijacketed Soft Point
SOB – Small Of Back
SOT – Special Occupational Tax
SP – Soft Point
Spl – Special (e.g. .38 Spl)
SWAT – Special Weapons And Tactics
S&W – Smith & Wesson
SWC – Semi-WadCutter

TC – Thompson Center

USPSA – United States Practical Shooting Association

WC – WadCutter
WCF – Winchester Center Fire
Win – Winchester (e.g. .308 Win)
WMR – Winchester Magnum Rimfire (e.g. .22 WMR)
WSM – Winchester Short Magnum (e.g. .300 WSM)

YHM – Yankee Hill Machine

 

And here are some I just made up:

MGLC – More Guns Less Crimes
KMAB – Kiss My Ass Bloomberg
BSB – Bloomberg Sucks BallsDBBS – De Blasio’s Bullshit
CIAC – Cuomo Is A Cunt

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