The more ammunition, the more rounds a shooter can fire quickly before having to stop and reload.
All are relatively lightweight, powerful and capable of accommodating large ammunition magazines, typically containing 30 rounds. An industry trade group estimates that more than 16 million of them are owned by US citizens.ĪR-15 rifles on sale at a gun show in Oaks, Pennsylvania, October 6, 2017.Īssault weapons - AR-15s and others - have been used in some of the grisliest US gun massacres in recent years, including Aurora, Colorado and and Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 Orlando in 2016 Las Vegas in 2017 Parkland, Florida in 2018 and El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio in 2019.Ĭolt's AR-15 is a close cousin of military rifles such as the M-16 and M-4.
In addition, a number of other companies make rifles similar to AR-15s and are selling plenty of them to the public. Michael Moore September 21, 2019Ĭolt has said that it didn't act as a result of political or popular pressure, but rather because the company has so many contracts with military and police agencies that it doesn't have capacity to make rifles for the civilian market. In fact, the evidence indicates their celebrations are probably premature. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence counted the news among " recent victories." Celebrity gun-control activists Michael Moore and Debra Messing also trumpeted Colt's move as progress toward eliminating the weapons from public circulation. When the Colt gun manufacturing corporation announced in September that it would stop producing its AR-15 semiautomatic rifle for sale to the general public - to focus on handguns and military production - some gun-control advocates declared victory, saying the move would help limit the availability of assault weapons in the US.
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