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...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)....
...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....
...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....
...Rising crime rates have been attributed to recession-induced budget crises in regional government....
...Dick’s Sporting Goods said it would stop selling assault rifles such as the AR-15 — the type the 19-year-old accused of the slaughter is alleged to have used....
...The 24-year-old wears a black T-shirt emblazoned with Mr Bolsonaro’s face and the words “honour, moral, ethics”: on the back is an AR-15 rifle....
...Dick's Sporting Goods did the same, and ended all sales of assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines....
...Fifteen years later, protected in a safe house in one of the city’s hillside favelas by young men brandishing AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, Mr Martins’ life is imitating the most brutal art....
...Anyone who tries can easily track down highly-armed Americans who believe the government is plotting to disarm them to pave the way for foreign takeover....
...The bans were enacted after a gunman shot and killed 20 young children and six adult staff members with an AR-15 assault rifle at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012....
...Armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a handgun, Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more before dying in a shootout with police....
...Colt, the 179-year-old firearms manufacturer famous for making “the gun that won the west”, has filed for bankruptcy amid delayed government sales and stagnating demand....
...The FN FAL rifle is an iconic weapon among armies the world over, occupying a status similar to the American M16 and the Russian Kalashnikov....
...The shape of the trigger is modelled on the butt of a Colt 45, he adds. “Do you know what the nickname for that gun is? The peacemaker.”...
...“Would I be able to walk around with an AR-15 [assault rifle] down here?” he said. “It’s my right in Missouri but I’d get slaughtered out here....
...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....
...You have gangs fighting for the government.” According to the regime’s narrative, Mr Assad has survived despite vast forces arrayed against him....
...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....
...Walmart, the largest US retailer, has taken the listing for the Bushmaster down from its website, but was still advertising similar AR-15 variant rifles, including models from Colt of the US and Sig Sauer...
...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....
...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...
...The defence ministry said Mr Saleh had called for a ceasefire, citing him as saying that ”the solution is not in the mouths of rifles and guns, it is in dialogue and stopping bloodshed”....
...Government pre-approval and registration is necessary for all firearms....
...It used its golden share to block a sale to arch-rival Colt Manufacturing of the US, fearing the Wallonian flagship might be shut down, and bought the company itself....
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