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If you have to ask whats with all the acronyms, you havent spent much time on eBay either. :)

FC Fine Condition

GC Good Condition

GU Gently Used

NOS New Old Stock

HTF Hard To Find

NIB New In Box

MIB Mint In Box

MIP Mint In Package

MIMP Mint in Mint Package

NBW Never Been Worn

NR No Reserve

OOP Out Of Print

You'll see a few of those acronyms (FC, GC, HTF) used to describe guns on other sites, such as Gun Broker, or Auction Arms.

Some other common ones here are:

FYI For Your Information

FWIW For What It's Worth

HTH Hope That Helps

BTW By The Way

IMHO In My Humble Opinion

IOW In Other Words

AFAIK As Far As I Know

YMMV Your Mileage May Vary

LEO Law Enforcement Officer

FTF Fail To Feed / Fail To Fire

FTE Fail To Extract

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Well Chris it is a "double entendre" I suppose...'cause that fits too!

I had MTBR for my car tags for a while...got asked why my tags said meat beater :surprise:

I probably shouldn't tell you this, but one day we were looking at it and wondering why anyone would have "Heckler&Koch Masterbator" as a screen name. Then we got to thinking that as long as it was full-auto it might not be too bad after all.

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