[quote="NCWayne"](quoted from post at 17:38:01 03/05/15) First point, AR does not stand for Assault Rifle. It actually is the first two letters of the original manufacturer's name, ARmalite. Too, the AR was origionally designed as a .308 rifle, by Eugene Stoner.
That being said, in the original, full auto configuration, yes both the AR and AK rifles were designed for warfare. That makes them no different than many other rifles originally designed for warfare, regardless of whether they were bolt action, semi auto, or whatever. Since you brought up hunting, remember, the 7mm and 8 mm Mauser, which is a really popular hunting rifle, was origionally designed by the Germans as a military rifle. The same goes for the Ruger Mini14 and Mini 30, which were based of the M14 action. That same idea, even if it's not the same action, spun off even further into the ever popular 10/22. I could go on, but for the same of at least a little brevity I won't.
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Wayne, you almost got it right. The AR platform was originally designed and sold as a semi auto sporting rifle, as the AR 10 in 308 starting in 1956. The first military sale was in 223, and with the new round called the AR15 to a friendly foreign nation for it's security forces in 1959. It wasn't adopted as an assault rifle, modified to military specs to the US Army until 1963. That means that the US military with M16 platform and it's variants has gone to war with a civilian sporting rifle sense Viet Nam, modified to military specs. The AK on the other hand was designed as an assault rifle and modified to civilian specs.
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