Say what you want. I bought my CAR-15 from High Standard , a company that makes both CAR-15s and AR-15s, supplying both government and civilian contracts. The reason I bought one is that ALL of their models have hardened barrels, including the civilian model. The AR -15 is the select fire model. Mine is a simple semi-automatic CAR-15 .
The AR designation makes it military.
If its a publicly available model it can’t be an AR-15, its a CAR-15. The C is for “civilian.”
“...I bought my CAR-15 from High Standard , a company that makes both CAR-15s and AR-15s,.. The AR -15 is the select fire model. Mine is a simple semi-automatic CAR-15 .
The AR designation makes it military.
If its a publicly available model it can’t be an AR-15, its a CAR-15.” [Candor7, post 124]
Wrong again.
High Standard’s official website lists “AR-15 - M16 - M4” but no reference is made to CAR except in the parts section, concerning “carbine” size parts (surprising to see the mere mention of “AR-15” on the site - Colt’s trademark attorneys must be napping). Curiously, the firearms page lists an “M16A1 Kit Gun” but the detailed description indicates it’s semi only. M16A1 was official nomenclature for one of the early US-issue rifles made by Colt’s.
“CAR” was used in various ways in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
“AR” is not official DoD nomenclature. Doesn’t stand for “assault rifle,” “auto rifle,” nor “Army rifle.” It was initially used by ArmaLite to designate models: AR-4, AR-7, AR-10, AR-15, AR-16, AR-18 etc. Many claim it means “ArmaLite Rifle” but it was used to name at least one shotgun.
“The AR -15 is the select fire model. Mine is a simple semi-automatic CAR-15 .
The AR designation makes it military.
If its a publicly available model it can’t be an AR-15, its a CAR-15. The C is for “civilian.” “
The only full auto rifles that LOOK like the AR-15 (and its multitude of variants) are the M-16 and its (multitude of) variants, including the M4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle
I hate to be a stickler for terminology, but the anti-gun people REGULARLY confuse semi-autos vs. full autos. This largely started in the late 1980s, when Josh Sugarmann (who founded the Violence Policy Center in 1988) called on anti-gunners to refer to semi-automatics as “automatics” in order to scare the public into leaning on Congress to outlaw https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/01/17/is-it-fair-to-call-them-assault-weapons/?utm_term=.92f140627612
Note that most people are not that familiar with firearms, and will go with whatever the (largely anti-gun) media tells them. Hence the reason for the anti-gun leadership to mislead the mass of people - they don’t care about the facts, they just want their preferred result, by any means necessary (just like ALL Leftists, including Nazis and Communists).
By the way, though I cannot find (and don’t have the extra time to look for) anything about the “CAR-15” rifle the you bought, perhaps the “C” part stands for “Compact?”