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What's interesting is that DMR' are not restricted to rifle caliber platforms, the Mk12 SPR which is used by SOCOM is a good example
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This is because DMRs are called DMRs not EBRs.
They are designed for a role not from something else.
An m14 EBR is an "Enhanced Battle rifle" (scope and different stock slaped on an old gun), but it is in the role of a DMR. A Sniper rifle is a rifle that is used by the role of a Sniper, hence Sniper rifle, its not called a EHR/ETR (Enhanced Hunting Rifle/Enhanced Target Rifle).
My question is, does it really matter?
You could go all day thinking about strange rifles that don't meet all the criteria of what its name is.
The British L86 LSW (light Support Weapon) is just a longer heavier barrel and a bipod, but the M249 SAW is a Light Machine Gun (LMG) but is also referred to as a LSW? And the German MG42/34 was commonly referred to as a Heavy Machine gun, yet could be used in a Light Machine gun role.
So basically it either boils down to;
A) the name refers to the role it was intended for, or B) it doesn't really matter as there will always be something that is an exception.
A far more important question is how come a Platypus lays eggs yet also feeds its young milk, and still be called a Mammal yet lay eggs???