HPFF Abreveations Index (An aide to our alphabet soup)

[neo]

WWB=Winchester White Box. Standard Full Metal Jacket ammo sold at most retailers, and most popular at Wal Mart. Cheap and effective in Hi Points.

CCW=Conceal Carry Weapon. This is the general term for the license to carry a weapon concealed in public. Other states use other terms, but all generally mean the same.

FTF=Failure to Feed/Failure to Fire.

HP= Hi-Point...duh.

SHTF event/senario= S*** Hits the Fan. Generic term for a society altering event like Huricane Katrina, urban or natural disasters and the like.

922r= Name of the bill that outlines requrements for the number of foreign component and American made components that can be included in certain import weapons.

FMJ= Full Metal Jacket ammunition

CF380= .380 caliber Hi Point

C9= 9mm Compact Hi Point

MN= Mosin Nagant (Make of Eastern Bloc rifle that seems to be as popular as Hi-Points. You'll find that most HP enthusaists here also own one or more Mosin Nagant rifles... including myself Razz )

FFL= Federal Firearms License. This is a license that is requried to transport firearms via the postal system. This is also the license that most arms dealers are required to carry when selling.

BATF=Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. This is the regulatory body that oversees most arms laws and issues in the United States. These are also the the boys that distribute rulings and judgements on firearms regulations and laws.

Milsurp= Military Surplus. This refers to any arms that were once used for military or government service (such as the police), and are retired for sale to the consumer public in citizen arms countries.

FTE= Failure to Eject.  This is when the shell, discharged or not, is lodged in the breech of the weapon.  Often times this is the result of a failed ejector element or expansion of the brass from heat within the chamber.  In most cases, the weapon should be checked by a competent gunsmith if this occurs more than once in a session.

POS= Piece of S***.  Often referenced to Hi-Points; a common part of the vocabulary for gun snobs.

TEOTWAWKO= The End Of The World As We Know It (similar as SHTF)

BUG= Back Up Gun

BOB= Bug Out Bag

Saturday Night Special/Belly Gun= Refernced to any inexpensive, small caliber firearm.  Originated in the late 60's to early 70's when inexpensive small caliber firearms flooded the market in many countries, many costing as little as $20.  These arms would be made from stamped steel, rough cast pot metal and often times lacked double actions or adequate safety features.  Some try to rate Hi-Points in the same category but the range evidence from all major reviewers state otherwise.  In the 21st century, the term is most often associated with the Bryco/Jimenez Firearms consortium.

[Bushman98]

KB - catastrofic failure of a firearm (Ka-boom!!!)

[Mike_AZ]

HP= Hi-Point...duh.

BATF=Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. This is the regulatory body that oversees most arms laws and issues in the United States. These are also the the boys that distribute rulings and judgements on firearms regulations and laws.

HP can also be hollow point
JHP=Jacked hollow point or the Hi-Point .45 caliber handgun.
JCP=Hi-Point .40 caliber handgun
BATFE=Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. http://www.atf.gov/
C&R license=Curios and Relics type of FFL. That allows for personal collecting of firearms generally over 50 yeas old to be collected privately without having to go through a regular FFL and pass a NICS.
NICS=National Instant Criminal Background Check. System run by the FBI to check if a person attempting to purchase a firearm from an FFL is prohibited from doing so.

[Strangerous]

General Acronyms
2A     2nd Amendment
ACOG    Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight
ACP    Automatic Colt Pistol
AE    Action Express
AF    Alternative Force
AFAIK    As Far As I Know
AOP    Assault on Principal
AOW    Any Other Weapon
AWB    Assault Weapons Ban (part of the 1994 Crime Bill)
BAR    Browning Automatic Rifle
BC    Ballistic Coefficient
BG    Bad Guy, or Big Grin
BHP    Browning Hi-Power
BMG    Browning Machine Gun
BOB    Bug-Out Bag (or "Go Bag")
BOHICA    Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
BP    Black Powder
BPCR    Black Powder Cartridge Rifle
BTT    Back To Top
BTW    By The Way
BUG    Back-Up Gun
CCW    Concealed Carry Weapon (license)
CHL    Concealed Handgun License
COD    Cash On Delivery
COM    Center Of Mass
CONUS    Continental United States
CQB    Close-Quarters Battle
CQC    Close-Quarters Combat
CRISAT    Cooperative Research Into Small Arms Technology
CRPA    Certified Royal Pain in the A--
CUP    Copper Units of Pressure
DA    Double Action
DAO    Double Action Only
DARFC    Duck And Run For Cover
DD    Destructive Device
DFTT    Don't Feed The Troll
DOA    Dead On Arrival
DPS    Department of Public Safety
DVC    Diligentia Vis Celeritas (latin for Accuracy, Power, Speed)
EDC    Every Day Carry
EDP    Emotionally Disturbed Person
EIN    Employer Identification Number
EO    Executive Order
FFL    Federal Firearms License or Licensee
FPS    Feet Per Second
FTE    Failure to Extract
FTF    Face To Face
FTF    Failure to Feed/Fire
FTLOG    For The Love Of God
FUBAR    F---ed Up Beyond All Recognition
FWIW    For What It's Worth
FYI    For Your Information
GC    gas check; a copper-zinc alloy cup used as gilding to protect the base of lead bullets from hot gas during internal ballistics.
GD&R    Grin, Duck, & Run
GI    Government Issue
GMT    Greenwich Mean Time
HAND    Have A Nice Day
HD    Home Defense
HDC    Home Defense Carbine
HMG    Heavy Machine Gun
HTH    Hope That Helps
IANAL    I Am Not A Lawyer
IINM    If I'm Not Mistaken
IIRC    If I Remember Correctly
IMHO    In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO    In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO    In My Opinion
IRL    In Real Life
IWB    Inside WaistBand
JBT    Jack Booted Thug
JMB    John Moses Browning
JMO    Just My Opinion
KISS    Keep It Simple, Stupid
KYPD    Keep Your Powder Dry
LDA    Light Double Action
LE    Law Enforcement
LEA    Law Enforcement Agency
LEO    Law Enforcement Officer/Official
LLEA    Local Law Enforcement Agency
LMAO    Laughing My A-- Off
LMG    Light Machine Gun
LNIB    Like New In Box, usually means the item looks new but has been lightly used
LOL    Laughing Out Loud
LOS    Line Of Sight
MG    Machine Gun
MIM    Metal Injection Molding
MOA    Minutes Of Angle (angular measurement, 1/60 of a °, 360° in a circle)
MOB    Middle Of Back
MOS    Military Occupational Specialty
MV    Muzzle Velocity
NAP    Non-Aggression Principle (and criticism)
NIB    New In Box, usually means the item has not been used since bought, but can also mean LNIB.
NOYB    None Of Your Business
OAL    OverAll Length
OMG    Oh My God
OOTB    Out Of The Box
ORM-D    Other Regulated Materials - Domestic (seen on boxes of shipped ammo)
OT    Off-Topic
OTOH    On The Other Hand
OWB    Outside the WaistBand
PASGT    Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops
PBR    Point Blank Range
PDW    Personal Defense Weapon
PHB    Pointy-Haired Boss (Dilbert reference, a boss without a clue)
PITA    Pain In The A--
POA    Point Of Aim
POI    Point Of Impact
POI    Person Of Interest
POS    Piece Of S---
PSI    Pounds per Square Inch
PT    Physical Training
PTL&PTA    Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition
REMF    Rear Eschelon Mother F---er (derogatory name for a non-combatant in a combat zone or a military occupational specialty that would keep one from seeing combat)
RINO    Republican In Name Only (a liberal in conservative clothing)
RKBA    Right to Keep and Bear Arms
ROTFL    Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO    Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A-- Off
SA    Single Action
SAA    Single Action Army (famous Colt revolver design that shows up in Westerns)
SAK    Swiss Army Knife
SD    Self Defense; Sectional Density (weight [lbs] to cross-section area [in^2])
SHTF    S--- Hits The Fan
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
SNAFU    Situation Normal: All F---ed Up
SO    Significant Other (boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife)
SOB    Small Of Back (6 o'clock carry)
SOP    Standard Operating Procedure
SOT    Special Occupational Tax license (administered by the BATFE)
SWAT    Special Weapons And Tactics
SxS    Side by Side (i.e. a shotgun)
TEOTWAWKI    The End Of The World As We Know It
TIA    Thanks In Advance
TID    Tax ID number
TLA    Three Letter Acronym
TPTB    The Powers That Be
TTW    Taunting The Wookie (someone known to rip arms out of sockets when inflamed)
TU    Tits Up (military origin, meaning f---ed; often spelled phonetically as "Tango Uniform")
URL    Uniform Resource Locator
UTC    Universal Time Coordinate (timezone, equivalent to Zulu/GMT)
VCA    Violent Criminal Assailant
WTF    What The F---?
WTSHTF    When The S--- Hits The Fan
WYSIWYG    What You See Is What You Get

Bullet Acronyms
AP     Armor Piercing
API    Armor Piercing, Incendiary
APT    Armor Piercing, Tracer
BBWC    Bevel Base WadCutter
BT    BoatTail
FMJ    Full Metal Jacket
FP    Flat Point
HP    Hollow Point
J    Jacketed
JFP    Jacketed Flat Point
JHC    Jacketed Hollow Cavity
JHP    Jacketed Hollow Point
L    Lead
LRN    Lead Round Nose
LSWC    Lead Semi-WadCutter
LWC    Lead WadCutter
RN    Round Nose
SJ    Semi-Jacketed
SJHP    Semi-Jacketed Hollow Point
SP    Soft Point
SWC    Semi-WadCutter
TC    Truncated Cone
TMJ    Total Metal Jacket
WC    WadCutter

[Bushman98]

Kind of surprised that these two were not in the list:

SBR - Short Barrel Rifle

EBR - Evil Black Rifle

[Strangerous]

YMMV Your mileage may vary

[syst3merror]

not really an abbreviation, but I have something to add:

Stovepipe -  a shooting term used when on a (gun) line or firing range; a round that does not extract all the way out of a "semi-automatic pistol or rifle" after fired; the round will be pointing toward the sky thus with a tad of smoke coming out; to look like a stove pipe;malfunction with a pistol or magazine

[Kyu]

TLA = Three Letter Acronym
AFLA= A four letter acronym
YAFLA = yet another five letter acronym

[blade55440]

I've noticed IRHO...what is that?

[Strangerous]

I've noticed IRHO...what is that?

That's L R H O... Last Round Hold Open, found in newer Hi-Points.

[Branth]

I'm guessing at these...  Am I right?

WTB - Want To Buy
WTT - Want To Trade
WTS - Want To Sell
FS - For Sale
FT - For Trade

[Strangerous]

I'm guessing at these...  Am I right?

WTB - Want To Buy
WTT - Want To Trade
WTS - Want To Sell
FS - For Sale
FT - For Trade

Yes, but don't forget these:
SPF: Sold Pending Funds
BTT: Bump To Top (bumps the listing to the top of the list)
OBO: Or Best Offer

[47_MasoN_47]

Another is BST (Buy/Sell/Trade - some forums use this instead of Trading Zone)
Also, when in the TZ FTF generally means Face to Face - such as when selling weapons or ammo to avoid the bother of involving FFLs.

[Boydc]

Did anyone mention FUBAR

[sean187]

I never seen anyone use STFU as sh@! hit the fan,only
to be used as shut the f up.but hey what are letters for?