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So again...what do I "press" on an AR?
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Pressing on the front of the slide opens the ejection port enough to see if a round is in there.
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So again...what do I "press" on an AR?
This is correct. Press check was the original term from the 1911 Manual of Arms from pre-WWI. It was a term designated to indicate you were pressing on the front of the slide on the 1911 to allow a visual and tactile verification that the weapon was loaded. People have been applying this term to all fire arms for a long time now...even if you can't "press" anything to do the check. But the original inception of the term was accurate.
Words do mean something...and these words mean exactly the correct thing in the context they were originally conceptualized for. History also means something.
Here's one for you, MORTGAGE. If I say mortgage to ANYONE now days, everyone assumes that I'm talking about a loan for a house. But that isn't what the original meaning of the word was. The entomology of the word is a concatenation of two different words. Mort - from mortality, or life; and Gage, an old english synonym for debt. Originally a mortgage meant literally a "Life Debt", or a loan you paid on for your entire life. But that's not how we interpret it now days.
So press check originally had a very specific meaning, but has now been generically applied more loosely for a specific task. I see no problem with this.