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...An AR-15 military rifle and a bag of clothes were found at the premises, the prosecutor said, adding that the origin of the weapon was under investigation....
...Last Saturday a far-right extremist opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle on passers-by at a shopping mall in Allen, Texas. He killed eight, including two children, and wounded a further seven....
...Just to underline the point, the National Rifle Association estimates America has 20mn owners of AR-15s. Twenty million!...
...Now, he added, is “probably not the best time to give up your AR-15” (a military assault rifle used in most of America’s mass shootings)....
...In a lawsuit, the families had alleged that Remington’s marketing had promoted militaristic qualities of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the 2012 massacre rather than promoting it for hunting and recreational...
...“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....
...Investigators have identified the weapon used in the massacre as a “high-powered rifle” and “similar to an AR-15”....
...Remington made the AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. The company filed for bankruptcy in mid-2020 for a second time in two years....
...Until 2004, sales of AR-15s and other military-style assault weapons were banned. Now they are flying off the shelves. That particular rifle keeps showing up in mass shootings....
...The discovery followed a series of raids in recent months that have yielded petrol bombs, other radio-controlled IEDs, a Glock pistol, bullets and an AR-15 rifle....
...Local media reported the 21-year-old suspect in the Colorado shooting used an AR-15, a lightweight semi-automatic rifle....
...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”....
...Among other things, Remington makes the AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. The company still faces an expensive lawsuit from the families of the victims....
...Remington’s promotional materials had emphasised the military capabilities of the Bushmaster XM15-E2S semi-automatic rifle, a type of AR-15 used by Lanza, thereby encouraging his behaviour, the families...
...Similarly, Bank of America does not do business with gunmakers that produce military-style rifles such as the notorious AR-15. Retailers, too, are cautiously taking action....
...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....
...His Facebook Live video showed Tarrant using four different guns, including a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle....
...-15 style rifle was used to kill 17 people....
...It created a for-profit spin-off, Ghost Gunner, selling computer-automated machine tools that allow its owner to turn roughly $700 worth of lawfully-purchased, untraceable parts into an AR-15 assault rifle...
...Mr Jones said Mr Bowers used all of the weapons he brought to the synagogue: an AR-15 assault rifle and each of his three Glock .357 handguns....
...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....
...a teenager used an AR-15....
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