![]() The industry calls them “modern sporting rifles” or “tactical rifles.”Ībout half are owned by current or former members of the military or law enforcement, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which represents gun makers. The name refers to ArmaLite Rifle, a nod to the now-defunct company that designed the first one. Yet it was another man with an AR-15 who is “the one who’s hailed for having stopped the guy.”Īn estimated 8 million AR-style guns have been sold since they were introduced to the public in the 1960s. “Here’s another attempt to demonize a weapon that a lot of Americans look to for self-defensive purposes,” Pratt said. And, he notes, the gunman in Texas who killed more than two dozen churchgoers was pursued by a man nearby who shot at him with his own AR rifle. To Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, gun-control advocates focus on vilifying the weapon and not the people behind the crimes. Of the approximately 13,000 gun deaths excluding suicides that happen annually in the United States, about 300 involve the use of rifles - both AR-style and more traditional long guns. The rifles are involved in only a small percentage of gun deaths each year. They were also used in the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting and in 2015 in San Bernardino, California. But this year, gunmen have used AR-style firearms in mass shootings in Las Vegas, Texas and Northern California. Most mass shootings - defined by federal authorities as involving four or more deaths outside the home - are carried out with handguns. ![]() “Remington may never have known Adam Lanza, but they had been courting him for years.” They used slogans invoking battle and high-pressure missions,” Joshua Koskoff, a lawyer for the families, told justices at a hearing. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The lawsuit against Remington Arms was dismissed because of broad immunity granted to the gun industry, but the Connecticut Supreme Court is weighing whether to reinstate it. Relatives of the Sandy Hook victims alleged in a lawsuit that the maker of the Bushmaster was negligent by marketing military-style weapons to young people who may be unstable and intent on inflicting mass casualties. Bushmaster has advertised its AR weapons with the slogan “consider your man card reissued.” ![]() The advertisements have become a focal point in the court case against a gun company over the 2012 massacre at a Connecticut elementary school where gunman Adam Lanza used a Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle to kill 20 children and six adults. “They’re being sold as an embodiment of American values.” “Guns are not sold on the basis of being just tools,” said gun industry expert Adam Winkler, a professor at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law and author of a book about the Second Amendment. ![]()
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