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During a search warrant on Harold Staples' residence by the BATF, agents recovered an AR-15 rifle with a filed metal stop (that normally prevents an M16 selector switch from rotating to the full auto position) and several M16 parts. [1] The agents testified that the rifle fired multiple shots on one trigger pull when testing it.
Regarding these fully-automatic firearms owned by private citizens in the U.S., political scientist Earl Kruschke said "approximately 175,000 automatic firearms have been licensed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (the federal agency responsible for administration of the law) and evidence suggests that none of these weapons has ...
5. The AR-15 controversy continues. Gun control advocates say that, because AR-15 style rifles function like military weapons and quickly kill many people, civilians should not be allowed to own them.
After Colt's patents expired in 1977, an active marketplace emerged for other manufacturers to produce and sell their own semi-automatic AR-15–style rifles. [1] Some versions of the AR-15 were classified as "assault weapons" and banned under the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994 within the United States. This act expired in 2004. [2] [22]
The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over everything from bans on AR-15-style guns to age limits.
In May 1990, New Jersey became the second state in the U.S. to pass an assault weapons ban, after California. At the time, it was the most restrictive assault weapons ban in the nation. [72] AR-15 semi-automatic rifles are illegal in New Jersey, and owning and publicly carrying other guns require separate licensing processes. [73]
The Firearm Industry Trade Association defines the AR-15 as a sporting rifle. Its semiautomatic function means that after the shooter pulls the trigger to fire a shot, the rifle automatically reloads.
The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was subtitle A of title XI of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as ...