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    List of Acronyms

    The Firing Line's Abbreviation Primer

    Also known as the Canonical List Of TFL Acronyms (CLOTFLA)




    General Definitions


    ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union

    AF - alternative force; military: Air Force

    AFAIK - as far as I know

    A.L.I.C.E. - All purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment

    Anti - an individual who opposes the RKBA for private citizens

    ASA - Australian Shooting Association

    BG - bad guy; big grin (as in <BG> or a smiley)

    BOHICA - bend over here it comes again

    BOR - Bill Of Rights

    BTT - back to top

    BTW - by the way

    CCRKBA - Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

    CAS - cowboy action shooting

    CHL - concealed handgun license

    CLDF - Civil Liberties Defense Foundation

    COA - Citizens Of America

    COD - cash on delivery

    CONDITION RED - Under attack.

    CONDITION ORANGE - Heightened awareness; alert to potential threats.

    CONDITION YELLOW - Normal awareness of one’s environment.

    CONDITION WHITE - Unawareness of one’s environment.

    CPHV - Center to Prevent Handgun Violence (an enemy of the RKBA)

    CQB - close quarters battle

    CQC - close quarters combat

    CRPA - certified royal pain in the a__

    DAISNAID - do as I say, not as I do

    DFTT - don't feed the troll

    DVC - Diligentia Vis Celeritas - Latin for Accuracy, Power, Speed

    FFL - federal firearms license

    Flame - insults... mud slinging. Not permitted on TFL.

    FOP - Fraternal Order of Police

    FOUP - Firearm Owners Unification Project

    ***** - fouled up beyond all recognition

    FWIW - for what it's worth

    FYI - for your info

    GG - good guy

    GI - government issue

    GOA - Gun Owners of America

    HCI - Handgun Control Incorporated (an enemy of the RKBA)

    IDPA - International Defensive Pistol Association

    IINM - if I’m not mistaken

    IIRC - if I remember correctly

    ILA - Institute for Legislative Action (Div. of the NRA)

    IMO - in my opinion

    IMHO - in my humble opinion

    IMNSHO - in my not so humble opinion

    IPSC - International Practical Shooting Confederation

    IRL - in real life

    IYDMMA - if you don’t mind me asking

    JMO - just my opinion

    JPFO - Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

    KISS - keep it simple stupid

    KYPD - keep your powder dry

    LEO - law enforcement officer

    LEAA - Law Enforcement Alliance of America

    LEA - law enforcement agency

    LFI - Lethal Force Institute

    LMAO - laughing my a__ off

    LOL - laughing out loud

    Member - registered TFL member with less than 15 posts

    MMM - Million Mom March

    Molon Labe Click here

    NIB - New in Box

    NOYB - none of your business

    NRA - National Rifle Association

    NSSF - National Shooting Sports Foundation

    OF - old ****

    OFIT - old **** in training

    OMG - oh my gosh

    OTOH - on the other hand

    *** - piece of s___

    PTL&PTA - praise the lord and pass the ammunition

    REMF - rear echelon mother f_____; derogatory name for a non-combatant in a combat zone or a military occupational specialty that would keep one from combat duty were hostilities to be engaged

    RKBA - right to keep and bear arms

    ROTF - rolling on the floor

    ROTFL - rolling on the floor laughing

    ROTFLMAO - rolling on the floor laughing my a__ off

    RPA – royal pain in the a__

    SAF - Second Amendment Foundation

    SAS - Second Amendment Sisters; Special Air Service (British military special operations unit)

    SASS - Single Action Shooting Society

    SATF - Second Amendment Task Force

    Senior Member - registered TFL member with 15 posts or more

    SHOTShow - Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Travel Show

    **** - s___ hits the fan

    Sic Semper Tyrannis - thus to tyrants forever

    ***** - situation normal, all fouled up

    SOP - standard operating procedure

    SSAA - Sporting Shooters Association of Australia

    SWAT - special weapons and tactics

    TANSTAAFL = there ain't no such thing as a free lunch

    TEOTWAWKI - the end of the world as we know it

    TFL - The Firing Line (Simply the Finest Firearms Information Site on the Web)

    TIA - thanks in advance

    TLA - three letter acronym

    Troll - someone posting with the purpose of inflaming or starting an emotional

    response... basically done by jerks with nothing better to do with their spare time.

    TRT - Tyranny Response Team

    TTHR - take the high road

    TTW - taunting the wookie

    URL - uniform resource locator

    USPSA - United States Practical Shooting Association

    *** - what the f___

    WTF2 - what the f___ was that for?

    WTFO - what the f___, over

    WTSHTF - when the s___ hits the fan

    WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get

    YMMV - your mileage may vary




    Ammunition, Technical, Gun-Related


    Accurate Arms - modern gun powder manufacturer

    ACP - automatic Colt pistol

    AE - action express

    Anneal - To soften metal by heating. Used to extend the useful reloading life of brass cartridge case necks by softening them and permitting more reloading operations to be performed before the work hardening effect of the cold, forced reshaping of the resizing operation causes metal fatigue in the neck area and makes the brass case unusable for further reloading. Brass and copper are annealed by fast cooling, usually by quenching, from a heated condition. Steel is annealed by a slow cooling. Quenching of steel from high heat has the opposite effect from the same treatment of brass and copper.

    AP - armor piercing

    API - armor piercing, incendiary

    APT - armor piercing, tracer

    AR - assault rifle

    BAR - Browning Automatic Rifle

    Bearing Surface - that portion of a bullet that contacts the bore of the barrel as it travels from chamber to muzzle. Sufficient bearing surface is required for good accuracy.

    BBWC - Bevel Base Wadcutter (bullet design)

    BC - ballistic coefficient: indexed measure of a bullets ability to overcome resistance in flight relative to the performance of a standard projectile used to compute ballistics tables. (mathematically: ratio of bullet's SD to its coefficient of form, or the ratio of bullet's weight to the product of the square of its diameter and its form factor (coefficient of form)).

    Bedding - material and/or methods used to fit rifle action to a stock.

    BMG - Browning machine gun

    Bore - the inside of a firearm's barrel.

    Bore sight - to align the sights of a firearm by sighting through the barrel bore

    BP - black powder

    BPCR - black powder cartridge rifle

    Brisance (brissance) - the "shattering" effect of explosives; the burn rate, in terms of acceleration, i.e., how quickly is the maximum burn rate of an explosive mass reached?

    BT - boattail (bullet design)

    Bullet - the projectile which is expelled from a firearm's barrel at firing

    Burn rate - the relative speed at which gun powders burn (explode) This is determined by the size and shape of granules, amount and nature of any coatings and, in some cases, specific physical design of the granules, such as perforations, tubes, rods, ball (beads) or disk shapes (flattened beads).

    Cal. - Caliber (inches or millimeters); projectile (bullet) diameter or diameter of some specifically defined point in the bore of a barrel; the nominal or approximate diameter of a bore expressed similarly. NOT the same as a cartridge chambering! Caliber is diameter only. .223 Remington is not a caliber. It is a chambering. The number .223 alone, however is understood to mean the .223 Remington, but literally is a caliber. There are several chamberings that use the .223 caliber of bullet or bore. .30-'06 is a chambering. It uses a .308 caliber bullet.

    Cartridge - completed assembly, comprised of a case (the central component), primer (for ignition), powder (primary energy source) and bullet (projectile). The cartridge is placed into the chamber and confined by a breech device for firing.

    CCW - concealed carry weapon

    Chamber - the portion of a firearm which contains the cartridge at firing.

    Chambering - i.e., "This rifle is available in the following chamberings: …"; Specific machined dimensions to the interior rearmost portion of a barrel which results in a chamber that will accept and safely fire one cartridge design only, i.e., .30-'06 Springfield, .270 Winchester, .223 Remington, .38-55 Winchester-Ballard, .45-'70 Government, etc. Although acceptable chamber dimensions are defined and accepted throughout the firearms industry by the ANSI-approved SAAMI, there are many "wildcat" and "improved" variations of standard SAAMI chamberings in use.

    Charge - quantity of powder; usually in grains. One avoirdupois pound equals 7,000 grains.

    Choke - in a shotgun, the taper in the last few inches of the barrel. This is usually a tightening of the bore to a slightly smaller diameter from the actual gauge measurement of the barrel. Some typical choke names, from least to most taper, are: cylinder (no taper), improved cylinder (or simply: "improved"), modified cylinder ("modified") and full choke ("full"). This is not a complete list, but typical.

    CLASS III - Refers to the Class III FFL required to deal in NFA items (full-auto, suppressors, etc.)

    Clip – A strip of metal that is used to hold cartridges together to facilitate the loading into (usually) an internal rifle magazine.

    CONDITION 1 - Pistol: Full magazine, cartridge in chamber, hammer cocked, safety on. AKA "cocked and locked."

    CONDITION 2 - Pistol: Full magazine, cartridge in chamber, hammer down, safety off.

    CONDITION 3 - Pistol: Full magazine, chamber empty.

    CONDITION 4 - Pistol: Full magazine separate from gun, chamber empty.

    Components (reloading) - individual components that make up the "recipe" for a hand loaded cartridge. The four components are: primer, case, bullet and powder.

    CRUISER READY - Shotgun: Full magazine, chamber empty, hammer down, safety off.

    CUP - copper units of pressure; a method of measuring chamber pressure, most common with shotguns

    Cylinder Gap - the distance between the front of the cylinder and the rear of the barrel in a revolver.

    DA - double action, as opposed to single action (SA), DA cocks the hammer and positions a cartridge for firing with a single pull, through full travel, of the trigger

    DAO - double action only

    DEWC - double ended wadcutter (bullet design)

    EAA - European American Arms, a manufacturer of firearms

    FMJ - full metal jacket (bullet design)

    FN - There are several arms factories in different countries which use the initials "FN", standing roughly for National Factory. The best known FN is the Belgian arms manufacturer, Fabrique Nationale d'Armes d'Guerre or National Factory of War Arms, in Leige and Herstal, Belgium.FN was the developer of the Fusil Automatique Leger or Light Automatic Rifle, commonly called the FAL or FN-FAL. FALs are or have been the standard service rifle of a number of countries, including most of the British commonwealth, and were manufactured in several countries. Several semi-auto only versions are available on the U.S. market.Also: flat nose (bullet design)

    FP - flat point (bullet design)

    FPS - feet per second

    FTF - failure to feed/failure to fire

    G&A - Guns & Ammo (print magazine)

    GA - gauge (also: ga.)

    GCA - Gun Control Act (1968)

    GC - gas check; a copper-zinc alloy cup used as gilding to protect the base of lead bullets from hot gas obduration during internal ballistics.

    H&R - Harrington & Richardson, a manufacturer of firearms

    HBWC - hollow base wad cutter (bullet design)

    Headspace - measurement between two points in a chamber which are the confining boundaries of cartridge movement during chambering and firing. Insufficient headspace hinders complete chambering of the cartridge. Excessive headspace permits case stretching and can permit case separation, which will permit high pressure gas leakage during the firing/pressure cycle. Very dangerous to equipment and shooter. Headspace is defined and measured differently for each case design. Rimless, rimmed and belted bottleneck cases each have a method unique to the design and a measurement specific to the chambering. Straight walled cases, rimless and rimmed, also have unique methods and cartridge-specific measurements.

    HD - Home Defense

    Hodgdon - modern gun powder manufacturer

    HP - hollow point (bullet design)

    IMR - modern gun powder manufacturer: Improved Military Rifle; formerly DuPont

    JHC - jacketed hollow cavity (bullet design)

    JFP - jacketed flat point (bullet design)

    JHP - jacketed hollow point (bullet design)

    JMB - John Moses Browning. The designer of some of the best guns ever made.

    KYPD - keep your powder dry

    LOS - line of sight

    LRN - lead round nose (bullet design)

    LSWC - lead semi-wad cutter (bullet design)

    LWC - lead wad cutter (bullet design)

    Mag. - magazine; magnum; also: mag.

    Magazine- ammunition holders that are equipped with a spring to move the ammo, these are not clips.

    MM - Millimeters; also mm

    MV - muzzle velocity, usually in fps. Velocity of the bullet at or very near the muzzle of the barrel

    MOA - minute of angle

    NAA - North American Arms, a manufacturer of firearms

    NEF - New England Firearms, a manufacturer of firearms

    NFA - National Firearms Act (1934)

    O/U - over/under (shotgun)

    OAL - overall length

    Ogive - a measure of the curvature forward portion of the bullet. The radius of the ogive is usually expressed in multiples or fractions of the caliber.

    PBR - point blank range

    PDW – Personal Defense Weapon

    POA - point of aim.

    POI - point of impact.

    PPC - Cartridge designed in 1974 by Dr. Louis Palmisano and Ferris Pindell. Based on the 220 Russian case with a head diameter of .441 - .445. Considered to be the most efficient cartridge design available, the .22 cal PPC and 6mm PPC virtually dominate benchrest accuracy competition in the world today.

    PSI - pounds per square inch; also: psi. This is the normally accepted measure of pressure exerted on the inside wall of the chamber of a modern rifle or handgun during the firing cycle. By convention and tradition, a shotgun pressure rating is in CUP. PSI is slowly replacing the use of CUP as a standard reference of pressure in all firearms testing and pressure proofing.

    RN - round nose (bullet design)

    S&W - Smith & Wesson

    SA - single action, as opposed to double action (DA), SA releases the trigger for primer contact and firing AFTER cocking of the hammer and positioning of the cartridge for firing by means other than pulling the trigger.

    SAA - Single Action Army; a famous design of revolver by Colt used in early America and credited with finalizing the popularity of mass produced, brass cartridge handguns. This is the cowboy revolver of Hollywood Western Motion Pictures.

    SAAMI - Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute; an accredited standards developer for the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

    SAF - Second Amendment Foundation

    SD - sectional density; ratio of bullet's weight, in pounds, to its cross-sectional area, in inches.

    SJHP - semi-jacketed hollow point

    SKS - Samozaryadnaya Karabina Simonova, or Self-loading carbine Simonov. Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov was one of the old Soviet Union's foremost arms designers. The rifle was adopted by the USSR in 1945, and was made both there and in China.

    SLR - self loading rifle

    SMG - sub machine gun

    SP - soft point (a bullet design)

    SWC - semi wadcutter (a bullet design)

    TC - truncated cone (a bullet design)

    Throat - leade, freebore. That portion of the barrel bore immediately forward of the chamber. In some rifle chamber designs, the throat may be long and may transition into a relatively slow taper to full depth of lands and grooves (rifling). In other rifle designs the throat is relatively short and the transition to full depth rifling is abrupt, although all barrels have some taper from throat to full depth rifling. The immediate effect of the two extremes in design is to determine the maximum distance a bullet may protrude out the front of the case. This determines the final overall length of the loaded cartridge, for a given bullet shape.

    TMJ - total metal jacket (a bullet design)

    WC - wad cutter (a bullet design)

    USRAC - U.S. Repeating Arms Company; firearms, ammo and reloading component manufacturer




    Government


    AG - Attorney General

    BATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (also ATF)

    CIA - Central Intelligence Agency

    CMP - Civilian Marksmanship Program (formerly DCM)

    DCM - Dept of Civilian Marksmanship (now defunct as an organization; see CMP)

    DOD - Department Of Defense

    DOJ - Department Of Justice

    EO - Executive Order

    FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation

    HUD - Housing and Urban Development

    IRS - Internal Revenue Service

    JAG - Judge Advocate General

    JBT - jack booted thug

    NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    NFA - National Firearms Act (1934)

    NSA - National Security Agency

    OSS - Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the CIA)

    VA - Veterans Administration

    WPA - War Powers Act


    This list was taken from "The Firing Line"
    John Caradimas SV1CEC
    The M1911 Pistols Organization
    http://www.m1911.org
    Last edited by John; 31st August 2005 at 21:12.


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    How about A.L.I.C.E? I know what it's for, but derned if I can remember what the letters mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ottlos
    How about A.L.I.C.E? I know what it's for, but derned if I can remember what the letters mean.
    All purpose
    Lightweight
    Individual
    Carrying
    Equipment

    I think that's it.

    Hersh

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    Thumbs up Roger on ALICE, now how about MOLLY?

    Thanks, Hersh.

    Now I just have to try to remember it.

    John, mi comandante, how about tucking Hersh's contribution into your acronym list?

    Next Question: It seems that A.L.I.C.E. has been replaced by a piece of kit called M.O.L.L.Y. Now what the %$^# does that stand for?

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    What about the FMJ/CT full metal jacket/combat target,CL crimp lock, ENC encapsulated, SIL silhouette, SST super shock tip, UHC ultra high coeffiency, XTP extreme terminal pressure.and LM light magnum.

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    Ok, kinda late but...
    M.O.L.L.E. = Modular Lightweight Load-Carrying Equipment

    How about APFSDSDU = armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot depleted uranium
    "It's you and me against the world... We attack at dawn." Mandy

    "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle

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    Great, Dreampiper, gotcha back, but how do I pronounce our battle cry, "APFSDSDU"?

    I tried it, and everyone handed me Kleenex.

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    It sounds like sssHHH-BOOM!!

    Speaking of which, KB seems to be missing from the above list. (KaBoom: the sound of your handgun rapidly disassembling itself in your hand.)
    "It's you and me against the world... We attack at dawn." Mandy

    "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle

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    You forgot one important one.

    IHA = I Hate Acronyms.

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    Can't forget this one:

    SWMBO= She Who Must Be Obeyed (Wifey/Girlfriend)

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