A Brief History Of The AR-15
The semi-automatic rifle has been in wide circulation for more than a half-century. In recent years, gunmen have used AR-15-style weapons to carry out many of the country's worst mass shootings.
What weapon did the gunman use in the recent shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida?
If you said the AR-15, you'd be wrong. And we'll explain in a moment.
For more than a half-century, the AR-15 has been popular among gun owners, widely available in gun stores and, for many years, even appeared in the Sears catalog.
Yet over the past decade, the AR-15 and its offshoots have been used in many of the country's worst mass shootings. This has reignited the debate about their widespread availability.
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