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Bought his AR-15 at a pawn shop 3 hours before killing 4... +4/-0
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| Author:Jett
6/2/2022 12:34:18 PM |
Why would we need common sense gun regulations?
Tulsa hospital shooter killed four including his surgeon after 'botched back surgery' as cops reveal he purchased AR-15 from pawn store three hours before the attack
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| Msg ID: 2731171 |
FBI latest reports on AR15 +1/-3
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| Author:Old Guy
6/2/2022 12:54:56 PM Reply to: 2731167 |
The AR 15 the most popular sporting rifle in the country is responsible for less than 3% of all homicides! |
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| Msg ID: 2731178 |
FBI latest reports on AR15 +4/-0
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| Author:TheCrow
6/2/2022 2:04:21 PM Reply to: 2731171 |
The AR 15 the most popular sporting rifle in the country is responsible for less than 3% of all homicides! Correct. 59% of homicides are by handguns. It's logical to ban handguns in preference to ARs? America has a strong 'gun culture' but that doesn't mean we're more casual about shooting people. "America's Rifle", the M16/AR15 is deservedly popular and an extremely effective weapon. That's why sixty-something years after it became the standard weapon of Free World forces everywhere it is still in service. I like/liked the M16s and, especially, the XM177 I was issued in Vietnam. And it is the tool used by a lot of American mass murderers.
The AR-15 rifle, the gun used to kill 21 people in Uvalde, often used in mass shootingsThe type of gun used to kill 21 people, including 19 children, at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school on Tuesday was also used for 11 other mass shootings since 2012, according to USA Today. The gun is an AR-15 style rifle, which is a semiautomatic, or "self-loading," assault rifle. The weapon was dubbed as "America's rifle" by the NRA, which is holding its annual convention about four hours from Uvalde in Houston on Friday and Saturday. Texas gun laws:Tragedy in Uvalde sparks a familiar debate: Are guns the problem, or the solution? 'We all hurt':Uvalde residents confront grief as new details of school shooting emerge Uvalde shooting:What we know about the Uvalde school shooting: 19 children dead, shooter planned attack The Uvalde shooter legally purchased two AR-15 rifles soon after turning 18 on May 17 and May 20 from a local federal firearms licensee. According to a briefing by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday, one of the guns was in his car at the scene; the other was with his body inside the school, where officials have determined his grandmother worked until 2020. She also was shot and injured before authorities say the gunman went to the campus. AR-15s have been the weapon of choice for mass shooters. Here's what we know about them. An AR-15 was used in the Sutherland Springs church shooting in 2017Five years ago this November, a gunman used an AR-15 to kill 26 people in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The Sutherland Springs shooting is the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. 
When was the AR-15 rifle put in production?The AR-15 rifle was first developed in the 1950s. By the 1960s variations of the gun were being produced by manufactures like Colt's Manufacturing Company. In 1994, the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act banned the weapon in the U.S., but the act was not extended in 2004. AR-15 rifles can sell for $400 to $2,000. AR-15 has been used in 11 mass shootings since 2012According to USA Today, the AR-15 rifle, or variants of the AR-15 rifle, has been used in 11 mass shootings since 2012. Here's the list:
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| Msg ID: 2731192 |
FBI latest reports on AR15 +4/-0
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| Author:TheCrow
6/2/2022 3:40:53 PM Reply to: 2731171 |
"The AR 15 the most popular sporting rifle in the country is responsible for less than 3% of all homicides!" There doesn't seem to be agreement on exactly what an "assault! weapon!/rifle!/stick!/rock!" is! they're a real danger to the population! Buffalo! Uvalde! etc.!
"ASSAULT WEAPONS"Assault weapons are generally high-powered, semiautomatic firearms designed to fire rounds at a greater velocity than most other firearms, and, when combined with high-capacity magazines, they enable a shooter to fire a devastating number of rounds over a short period. In the 12 years from 2009 to 2020, there were at least 30 mass shootings (16 percent of those with known weapon data) that involved the use of an assault weapon, resulting in 347 deaths and 719 injuries. In other words, mass shootings that involved an assault weapon accounted for 25 percent of all mass shootings deaths and 76 percent of injuries. While not used in the majority of mass shootings, when they were, it left six times as many people shot per incident than when there was no assault weapon."
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