The AR-15, a widely available and easy-to-operate weapon, has become the most commonly used firearm in the deadliest mass shootings in the country. This article explores its destructive power and the impact it has had on countless lives.
The weapon, easy to operate and widely available, is now used more than any other in the country’s deadliest mass killings . Fired by the dozens or hundreds in rapid succession, bullets from AR-15 s have blasted through classroom doors and walls. They have shredded theater seats and splintered wooden church pews.
They haveand, in a matter of seconds, shattered the lives of people attending a concert, shopping on a Saturday afternoon, going out with friends and family, working in their offices and worshiping at church and synagogue. They have killed first-graders, teenagers, mothers, fathers and grandparents.Colt acquired the AR-15 patent and trademark from Armalite in 1959. The patent expired, leaving many companies to produce their own weapons, commonly called AR-15-style rifles. While Colt still holds the trademark, “AR-15” has become a ubiquitous term for a popular style of gas-operated, magazine-fed semiautomatic rifle. For this reason, we refer to the rifle broadly as the AR-15 in this serie
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