How do different manufacturers name their firearms?

[ashley308]

I know glocks are named after their patent number (I think?), but why did Mossberg name a shotgun the Mossberg 590 and other manufacturers?

[TacTurtle]

Marketing department usually

[snippysniper]

Random number/name generator

[THATASSH0LE]

I’m unfamiliar with any consistent numeric system with Glock. I just figured they were Fucking with us.

Glock 22? Shoots a .40

Glock 44? Shoots a .22

Glock 45? Shoots a 9mm

I believe it is something to do with patent order though.

[StoopingRaptor]

Every manufacturer comes up with their own nomenclature system.

[Twink-lover-1911]

Google

[Agammamon]

They hire (fucking) Millennials (nowadays – gen-x is aging out of marketing departments) to think of new names.

[Bobathaar]

For the last gun I bought the manufacturer just named the gun “alien”