An interesting gun quiz

[JTHunter]

How well can you do?

Locked and Loaded: Take a Shot at Our Firearms Quiz
http://quizzes.howstuffworks.com/qu...rearms(desktop)&sg_uid=LvuNDghLTnS4m1htNwPnfQ

 

[MifflinKid]

Pretty easy. I missed one.

 

[Hanzo581]

Got five wrong, some obscure questions on there. Started out super easy.

 

[readyeddy]

5 wrong

 

[grampajack]

It's full of errors!

Thompsons actually weren't very popular with gangsters. That was a myth started by the police, with whom Thompsons were very popular.

AR simply stands for "Armalite."

I'm relatively sure the first Uzis were adopted in .45 ACP.

And that's as far as I got before the ads locked up my computer...

 

[bikemutt]

5 wrong, dang!

 

[Theohazard]

I get so tired of hearing the bogus claim that "AR" stands for "Armalite rifle". No, it simply stands for the first two letters in "Armalite".

There were Armalite firearms with the "AR-" prefix that weren't rifles: there were shotguns, pistols, and even an aircraft-mounted gun.

 

[JohnBiltz]

Missed 3 two about China in the old days.

 

[FROGO207]

Four wrong but they were all wrong answers on those questions so I had a little fun. Then I started choosing the "best wrong answer" for the rest.

 

[north east redneck]

Pop up adds on my phone won't let me complete the quiz. Made it through five or six questions, all correct.

 

[JTHunter]

Those of you that had pop-ups, I'm sorry to hear that. Using my PC, I didn't have that problem.
When I took the quiz yesterday, I also missed one of the ones about China. The other three were about the Civil War stuff. I need more info on "historical" stuff as my knowledge is mainly WW1 or later.

 

[CapnMac]

Click-bait quiz that never opened for me.
Most of those quizes are created by non subject matter experts, and are rife with bad grammar and worse spelling.
Which, is now encouraged as it causes people to be bitter and go through the entire nnn pages just to see how bad it is, and also to email or comment their gripes & corrections. All of which generate "page views" which eventually generate revenue for the hosting service.

 

[CapnMac]

I'm relatively sure the first Uzis were adopted in .45 ACP.

Uziel Gal premiered his subgun in 9x19. Best US carbine sales were in .45acp, though.

 

[entropy]

30/30. Pretty easy.

 

[Tommygunn]

Well, I'd have done better if the quiz hadn't somehow answered 3 questions wrong for me.
I don't even know what " Those pistols at dawn were probably...." even means.




Thompsons were actually fairly popular with gangsters ----in Chicago. Not so much elsewhere. To the extent they were used they were either stolen or "borrowed" from shop owners who did business with gangsters.
Bonnie & Clyde, often depicted in movies with Tommyguns, never really used them. Clyde Barrow prefered the BAR because he liked the power of the .30-'06 cartridge.
Not too many police departments used Tommyguns. They were very expensive! But the maker certainly advertised them for police use. And some were used and occasionally today they still have a few. The LAPD has a few in their armory.

 

[strambo]

3 wrong, not bad I guess.

 

[lysanderxiii]

I'm relatively sure the first Uzis were adopted in .45 ACP.

The Uzi was designed around the standard Israeli service pistol cartridge, the 9mm Parabellum.

 

[lysanderxiii]

I get so tired of hearing the bogus claim that "AR" stands for "Armalite rifle". No, it simply stands for the first two letters in "Armalite".

There were Armalite firearms with the "AR-" prefix that weren't rifles: there were shotguns, pistols, and even an aircraft-mounted gun.

AR-1 (1954)
AR-3
AR-5 [aka MA-1 Survival Rifle] (1954–55)
AR-7 (1959–60)
AR-9 (a paper only gun)
AR-10 (1955–56)
AR-11, Stoppette, AR-11 was essentially an AR-3 scaled down to .223.
AR-12
AR-13, hyper-velocity anti-aircraft machine gun (another paper only gun)
AR-14
AR-15 (1956 – 59)
AR-16, 7.62×51mm NATO battle rifle (1959 – 60)
AR-17, semi-auto 12-gauge shotgun (1956 – 62)
AR-18 (1963 – 65)


Some of the lesser known ARs that were actually made:

AR-1:

AR-3:

AR-14:

 

[Salmoneye]

100%

 

[grampajack]

The Uzi was designed around the standard Israeli service pistol cartridge, the 9mm Parabellum.

Weren't they adopted in .45?

 

[lysanderxiii]

Weren't they adopted in .45?

Uziel Gal premiered his subgun in 9x19. Best US carbine sales were in .45acp, though.

 

[CapnMac]

And, in the US it was complicated.
Virtually all full-auto Uzis were in 9x19, with a smattering of .22lr and some .40ae (no bolt face change).
Semi-auto UZIs were available from IMI with 16" carbine barrels in 9x19, .45acp, and .22lr.
Some of those were SBR-ed to have original-length barrels.
I have heard that some full-auto carbines in .45acp were built, before '86, but not in any quantity.

Where the confusion may be occurring is that Ingram's MAC built the M-10 (aka MAC-10) in both .45acp and in 9x19. The M-11 was more compact, and in .380 (with the M-11/9 being an M-11 with a 9x19 chamber instead of 9x17). The MAC series of subguns is visually similar to the UZI.

 

[22250Rem]

5 wrong here........Started out almost too easy but then got into some pretty obscure ( to me, anyway) stuff. It was fun, though.

 

[rugmar]

According to Armalite's website, AR stands for Armalite Rifle.

 

[Theohazard]

The Armalite of today is not the same Armalite that came up with the "AR-" prefix. The new Armalite can claim anything they want on their website, but that doesn't make it historically true.

And that also begs the question, if "AR" stands for "Armalite rifle", why did the original version of Armalite make pistols and shotguns with the "AR-" prefix?

I think the answer is that it originally just stood for "Armalite", but the new Armalite has decided that on their current guns it means "Armalite rifle" since all their current firearms are rifles. Kind of like how SilencerCo has re-branded the name "SWR" to mean "SilencerCo Weapons Research", even though it originally meant "Southeastern Weapons Repair".