Dictionary of Phrases and Acronyms

**Defensor Fortis** · November 13th, 2010, 10:58 PM

SPORTS= SLAP Magazine, PULL Charging Handle, OBSERVE Chamber, RELEASE Charging Handle, TAP Forward Assist, SQUEEZE trigger.

This is the acronym for immediate action when you have a stoppage on your M4/M16 weapon platform.

**dman** · June 7th, 2011, 06:57 PM

P M S !!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll say no more !

**pac444** · June 12th, 2011, 10:41 PM

S.O.F.T. - Sniper on fucking tower.

MWAG - Monkey With a Gun.

Scurvy Jack or SJ - Code for a stupid police officer in my inner circle of friends.

CODFAG - Call of Duty ***, you'll see these morons on every video that features a gun that was included in the call of duty video games, they're typically being schooled by real gun owners because they're not very bright.

Mister J - What you tell your friend when he starts making religious or racial jokes toward muslims or people of middle eastern descent and one is present, a way of making him stop before he gets in trouble.

S.L.O.P. - Stupid Leader On Patrol, border patrol agents use this term to describe people who are squad leaders and should not be because they aren't bright and it's confusing as to how they got the position.

SAW - Squad Automatic Weapon

Liberal - Need I say more?

The Brady Campaign - A bunch of people with ADHD who think guns are evil and make outlandish statements to garner attention.

Bodies - Border Patrol term for illegals or traffickers.

BDU's - Battle Dress Uniforms.

ACP - Automatic Colt Pistol

ANIB - As New In Original Box

BBL - Barrel

Cape Gun - One smooth bore barrel and one rifled barrel, typically in shotgun form.

Funeral Grade - A high quality weapon that has little to no decoration on it.

Prince of Wales Grip, LTRK or Long tang round knob - A semi pistol grip.

Hang Fire - When a cartridge fails to fire but fires soon after, such as 2 seconds after the primer has been struck.

Lifters - A secondary term in South Africa/Australia and some other countries outside the United States for extractors.

MOA - Minute of Angle.

NIB - New In Box never fired.

NID - New Improved Design

O/U - Over and Under shotguns.

QD - Quick Detachable, generally applies to scopes and scope mounts that can be quickly detached.

SMLE - Short Magazine Lee Enfield

SA/DA - Single Action/Double Action, SA can also mean Semi Auto.

Widows Peak - The point where one material meets another, such as a buttplate and the buttstock or the forend and barrel.

.450 Dakota, .404 Jeffery, .375 H&H - Caliber references to big game guns that are commonly used in Africa.

**MaGreat** · June 15th, 2011, 12:27 AM

Excuse me if I barge in, but I find it a bit silly that in a stickied topic regarding quick learning of acronyms, all of the ones listed in the topic weren't added to the original post.

So I decided to go through the entire topic and compile a list of every listed acronym. Well, every acronym related to firearms/laws/etc; I tried to keep basic (e.g. LOL, ROFL, IMO, etc) and non-common acronyms out of it. The list is alphabetized and it is currently up to 98 acronyms.

Of course, the fact that my post will be on page 9 is a bit of a problem, I'd imagine, but hopefully, the OP or a mod can add this to the first post.

Attaching DOC and TXT files now.

**gnbrotz** · June 15th, 2011, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by MaGreat

Excuse me if I barge in, but I find it a bit silly that in a stickied topic regarding quick learning of acronyms, all of the ones listed in the topic weren't added to the original post.

So I decided to go through the entire topic and compile a list of every listed acronym. Well, every acronym related to firearms/laws/etc; I tried to keep basic (e.g. LOL, ROFL, IMO, etc) and non-common acronyms out of it. The list is alphabetized and it is currently up to 98 acronyms.

Of course, the fact that my post will be on page 9 is a bit of a problem, I'd imagine, but hopefully, the OP or a mod can add this to the first post.

Attaching DOC and TXT files now.

A note with a link to the above post has been added to the OP.

**phillykev** · June 15th, 2011, 04:39 PM

NAMBLA = National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes.

**MaGreat** · June 15th, 2011, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by gnbrotz

A note with a link to the above post has been added to the OP.

Thank you! Hopefully, this will make it easier for everyone.

**SgtRecon** · December 28th, 2014, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Mtbkski

Needs to be a sticky for ease of use. I've done most of the work. I'm willing to update regularly as I see new ones.

Definitions of Abbreviations

1911 = A pistol designed by JMB that set the standards for all pistols to follow

ACSL = Allegheny County Sportsmen’s League

AD = accidental discharge

AKA = also known as

ATF = Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

BG = Bad Guy

BOB = bug out bag

BRD = black rifle disease

BT = Boat-tail

BUG = Back Up Gun

BUIS = Back Up Iron Sight

CC = Conceal Carry

CCW= concealed carry weapon or carry a concealed weapon

CMT = continental machine & tool

COM = center of mass

DA = district attorney, double action, dumb ass

DAO = double action only

DD = Dickson Dozen

EBR = evil black rifle

ETA = edited to add

FCG = fire control group

FFL = Federal Firearms License

FMJ = full metal jacket

FSB = Front Sight Base

FTF = Failure to Fire, Failure To Feed or Face to Face

FTE = Failure to eject/extract

FUBAR = Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition

FWIW = For what it's worth

GB = Gasblock

GOA = Gun Owners of America

HS = Hydra shock

IPSC = International Practical Shooting Confederation

IIRC = If I recall, If I Remember Correctly

IMHO = In my humble opinion

IWB = Inside the waistband

JBT = Jack-Booted Thugs (a.k.a. Bad Cop)

JFPO = Jews for the Protection of Firearms Ownership

JHP = jacketed hollow point

JMB = John Moses Browning

JSP = Jacketed soft point

KB = KaBoom

LEO = Law Enforcement Officer

LDA = Light Double Action

LTCF = License to carry firearms

LOL = laugh out loud

LRN = Lead round nose

LSWC = Lead semi wadcutter

LTCF = license to carry firearms

NFA = National Firearms Act (Regulates Machineguns, Suppressors, Short Barreled Firearms, etc)

ND = negligent discharge (when you fire your gun when you did not intend to)

NP = Negligent post

NR = Non-Resident (doesn't live in PA)

NRA = National Rifle Association

OC = Open Carry

OP = original post or original poster

PAFOA = PA firearms owner's association (aka, poofa in some circles)

PD = police department

PIRATE = to steal or hijack

PM = private message

PMSC = pitcairn monroeville sportsmens club

PPD = usually philly police department on this forum

RSB = Rear sight base

SA = single action, Springfield Armory

SA/DA = single action/double action

SBR = short barreled rifle

SBS = short barreled shotgun

SHTF - Shit hits the fan

SPF = Sold Pending Funds

SNAFU = System Now All Fucked Up

SP = soft point

SPF = Sportsmen's Firearm Permit (Like a carry permit but only for hunting/fishing or something, almost no one bothers to get this)

SPR = special purpose rifle

SO = sheriff's office

TMJ = total metal jacket

TEOTWAWKI = The end of the world as we know it

USPSA = United States Practical Shooting Association

VFG = vertical foregrip

W = With

WB = Welcome Back

WC = Wadcutter

WTB = Want to buy

WTS = want to sell

WTT = want to trade

WWB = Winchester White Box

ZOMBIE = well....zombie (See BG)

1911 = A pistol designed by JMB that set the standards for all pistols to follow "that no pistols will ever aspire to"

Had to fix that one