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...“Democrats are now saying ‘bad people have AR-15s’ — but wait a minute, I have an AR-15,” says Philip Smith, founder of the National African American Gun Association....
...Vista Outdoor, which generates half its revenues from ammunition after selling its gun business, has shed 15 per cent of its value over the past year....
...Having said that, shares in the manufacturers of handguns, shotguns and “modern sporting rifles” such as the old AR-15 had a pretty good run from July 2020 to early this year....
...It had previously stopped selling powerful guns such as the AR-15, and prohibited sales to people under the age of 21....
...Mark Hanish, Ammo’s president of global sales and marketing, told the Financial Times it had seen intense demand for bullets for semi-automatic handguns and the AR-15 “modern sporting rifle”....
...Walmart had previously stopped selling handguns and military-style rifles such as the AR-15, and also prohibited sales to people under the age of 21, but faced calls to go further....
...The Walmart statement said the company had ended sales of “modern sporting rifles”, including the AR-15, in 2015....
...Walmart also decided to end sales of guns and ammunition to people under 21. The Walmart statement said the company had ended sales of “modern sporting rifles”, including the AR-15, in 2015....
...Walmart stopped stocking AR-15s and other assault-style firearms in 2015....
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...Police said Mr Cruz was armed with a gas mask, smoke grenades, a semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle and several magazines of ammunition when he opened fire from inside and outside the school in Parkland,...
...As Wess Miller drives it across the dirt tracks of his farm, he has a Glock pistol tucked into his jeans and a magazine of AR-15 rifle ammunition on the dashboard....
...Gun dealers have reported a surge in sales, especially of the AR-15 military-style assault rifle used in the Sandy Hook rampage, since the president began talking about restrictions....
...The AR-15 was originally manufactured by Colt, but variants are now produced by several companies. The gunman who attacked a Colorado cinema in July, killing 12 people, used an AR-15 variant....
...Police said later the gun used was a Bushmaster .223, a version of the AR-15 rifle, originally designed for US military, adapted for civilian use....
...An AR-15 assault rifle – the same type of weapon used in the Newtown shootings – was used by a 15-year-old boy in New Mexico last week to kill his parents and three younger siblings....
...The ban outlawed the AR-15, one of the guns used in the Colorado shooting. On the campaign trail, however, Mr Romney has said the existing federal laws were sufficient....
...A federal ban on assault weapons expired in 2004 and was not renewed: had it still been in force Mr Holmes would not have been able to buy the AR-15 which was allegedly used in Friday’s attack....
...Sure, James Holmes was able to purchase a powerful AR-15 rifle and amass several thousand rounds of ammunition, which he allegedly used to kill 12 people and wound dozens more in a movie theatre in Colorado...
...After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else....
...‘Montezuma’ is at the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, on August 14, 15, 17, www.eif.co.uk...
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