AR-15 automatic assault rifles

Dumb me, I thought that the AR-15 was a lightweight, magazine-fed, semi automatic rifle, version of the United States Military M16. I guess that the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), is also naive since it maintains that, "AR-15-style rifles are NOT 'assault weapons,'" adding that the guns "look like ...

A far western Wisconsin teenager who carried an AR-15 rifle in his car raised concerns among coworkers after saying he was going "to shoot kids," according to charges filed this week in St. Croix ... He is also barred from entering school grounds and from possessing firearms, weapons or explosives.

EL MIRAGE, AZ - An Uber driver in Arizona said he pulled up to give a ride Easter morning and ended up with an AR-15 assault rifle in his face. ... working with weapons or be in possession of any weapons while awaiting a resolution to the charges, which include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon ...

EL MIRAGE, AZ - A Valley Uber driver said he pulled up to give a ride Easter morning and ended up with an AR-15 assault rifle in his face. ... weapons or be in possession of any weapons while awaiting a resolution to the charges, which include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possessing or ...

Semi-automatic rifles are seen for sale in a gun shop in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 4, 2017. Mass killer Stephen Paddock used semi-automatic weapons which he modified with "bump-fire stock" to make them fire at the same speed as a fully automatic weapon when he killed 58 people and injured over ...

LETTER: Putting a few AR-15 facts in correct context ... 28, 2013, file photo, firearms training unit Detective Barbara J. Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make ... You successfully ban assault weapons then another weapon becomes the weapon of choice.

A 43-year-old man posted on Facebook that brother would go to a west suburban Lyons elementary school armed with an AR-15 rifle to confront his ... On Thursday, Chapman posted on Facebook that his brother would go to the school in “full uniform” with an AR-15 – the weapon of choice in recent mass ...

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is investigating after an AR-15 rifle was found inside the trunk of an abandoned rental car. Employees at the Express Rent-A-Car on Blanding Boulevard say the car was never returned and when they located the vehicle it was full of bullet holes and a rifle was in the back.

A 21-year-old man walked into a Maverik gas station, 9217 Ranches Parkway in Eagle Mountain, on March 14 carrying an AR-15 along with a handgun in a holster on his side, both visible to the public. The man did not make any threats and did not point his weapons at anyone, said Utah County Sheriff's ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (WAVY) — An expert in gun law says Virginia congressional candidate Karen Mallard's destruction of her AR-15 rifle, which she recorded and posted on Facebook, was ... Herron says the federal law dates back to the 1930s, and involves what's known as short barreled rifles, or SBRs.

Bolt-action rifles, what many would call hunting rifles, were used in many wars and continue to be used by militaries around the world. Does this make them assault rifles? No, in both cases. An assault is but one facet of the many military operations, therefore labeling a weapon exclusively as an “assault” ...

(WVEC) -- The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is investigating congressional candidate Karen Mallard after she posted a video on Facebook that shows her cutting apart an AR-15 rifle. The school teacher and Democrat is running for Virginia's 2nd Congressional District, ...

After reading Wednesday's letter "AR-15 has same parts as hunting gun," about how assault rifles look the same as any other rifle when taken apart, I got to thinking -- couldn't ... I was in Vietnam in 1967, so I'm qualified to to say a few things about this weapon. The military version of the AR-15 was the M16.

In addition to two counts of making threats, McBain is charged with two counts of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, three counts of being a felon in possession of ammunition and one count of possession of an assault weapon. He was arraigned before Superior Court Judge David Gunn, ...

Mr. Gale's letter “More gun fallacies will not keep kids safe” is full of mistakes. Sir, you are wrong to contend that military grade rifles are available today. Eugene Stoner's AR-15 was a select-fire rifle. That means it fired both in full and semi-automatic automatic mode. Full automatic rifles are legal to own but ...

AR-15 defenders are ignoring the fact that this specific weapon, or a rifle made in its mold, was the gun of choice for killers in mass shootings. That's not a coincidence. And the weapons have been efficent enough to accomplish mass killings. Lt. Col. (retired) Ralph Peters, a frequent Fox News contributor, ...

Just a few months before the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, 19-year-old gunman Nikolas Cruz tried to buy an AR-15 rifle at a Coconut Creek pawn and gun ... "And I said, 'Because I don't need an 18-year-old to buy (a) weapon and clear out his high school with it," Razi said.

Nothing about an AR-15 or AK-47 style rifle allows it to take larger magazines than any other firearm that also uses detachable magazines. What makes them different from the aforementioned military rifles such as the M1A? The answer is… appearance. Look at the actual text of “assault weapons” bans, ...

In 2012, a version of the AR-15 assault rifle manufactured by Remington and marketed as Bushmaster was used in a shooting that killed 20 children and ... and San Bernardino, California, and announced a new, lower-priced version of its AR-15 variant designed to exploit rising interest in the weapon style.

Eugene Stoner created the Armalite-15 as a cheaply stamped-out production combat weapon to spit out maximum firepower using a high-velocity, small-caliber bullet that tumbled when it hit flesh to create maximum wound damage. The rifle's early Vietnam combat record as the M16 resulted in many GIs ...

But the difference between the two is that the AR-15 is semi-automatic and an assault rifle is an automatic weapon. Lucas said the sale of true assault rifles is actually already banned in stores and generally used in the military. To purchase an AR-15 you must be 18-years old to purchase the gun and must ...

Worshipers clutching AR-15 assault rifles packed a commitment ceremony in a Pennsylvania church, prompting a nearby elementary school to cancel classes ... degrees of new gun control regulation as the country bitterly argues over whether everyday citizens really need to own military assault weapons.

For starters, he says it is not an assault rifle. He says that designation belongs to the fully-automatic weapons which the military uses. An AR-15 is semi-automatic, which means it fires each time the trigger is pulled. With an automatic weapon the trigger is pulled and bullets fire until the trigger is released.

Photos of the event show women in tears, clutching at their AR-15 semi-automatic rifles. ... their rifles in adherence to their belief that a biblical mention of a “rod of iron” is actually a reference to the types of assault-style rifles that have become the weapon of choice for mass shooters in the United States.

Crown-wearing worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church, prompting a nearby school to cancel classes. Attendees gripped the guns, which they had been urged to bring unloaded to the church in the ...

Worshippers in a Pennsylvania church clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged wedding vows in a commitment ceremony Wednesday morning. ... The sanctuary believes the AR-15 symbolizes the "rod of iron" in the book of Revelation, and encouraged couples to bring the weapons to the ...

"AR-15-style rifles are NOT 'assault weapons' or 'assault rifles,' according to NSSF's website. "An assault rifle is fully automatic — a machine gun. Automatic firearms have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934." The NSSF added, "AR-15-style rifles look like military rifles, such as the ...

In July 2016, 19-year-old Allen Ivanov purchased a military-style assault rifle. About a week later, “hopeless, suicidal and outraged with jealousy,” — as he described himself at his sentencing hearing — he drove to a party in Mukilteo. He used that weapon to kill his ex-girlfriend, Anna Bui, and two former ...

The main functional difference between the military's M16 and M4 rifles and a civilian AR-15 is the “burst” mode on many military models, which allow three rounds to be fired with one trigger pull. Some military versions of the rifles have a full automatic feature, which fires until the trigger is released or a ...

ArmaLite first developed the AR-15 in the late 1950s as a military rifle, but had limited success in selling it. In 1959 the company sold ... Those gun makers gave the weapons their own names, yet the popularity of the AR-15 turned it into a generic term for all types of AR-15-style rifles. These weapons can go ...

The AR-15 rifle has become known as the powerful weapon used by a number of gunmen to slaughter scores of people in Newtown, San Bernardino, Las Vegas, Parkland and .... He said he had done extensive work as a test-shooter for rifles, some of which were used by the military and law enforcement.

Updated | A high school band's booster club is raffling off weapons that include two AR-15 rifles, stirring controversy in the area. ... for the group, but it comes in the middle of a heated nationwide debate on gun control—particularly relating to the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which was used in the shooting at ...

It is unclear when and how the rifle worked its way into the United States' lexicon of violent crimes. In 1982, George E. Banks shot to death 13 people with the weapon, and in 1997, an AR-15, among other semiautomatic military-style rifles, was used in the North Hollywood shootout, a daytime robbery in ...