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  2. ArmaLite - Wikipedia

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    ArmaLite, or Armalite, is an American small arms engineering company, formed in the early 1950s in Hollywood, California.Many of its products, as conceived by chief designer Eugene Stoner, relied on unique foam-filled fiberglass butt/stock furniture and a composite barrel using a steel liner inside an aluminum sleeve, including the iconic AR-15/M16 family.

  3. Eugene Stoner - Wikipedia

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    AR-15 and other small arms Eugene Morrison Stoner (November 22, 1922 – April 24, 1997) was an American machinist and firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle that was redesigned and modified by Colt's Patent Firearm Company for the United States military as the M16 rifle .

  4. ArmaLite AR-15 - Wikipedia

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    The tests found that a five to seven man team armed with AR-15s had the same firepower as an 11-man team armed with M14s [40] and soldiers armed with AR-15s could also carry three times more ammunition than those armed with M14s (649 rounds vs. 220 rounds). [40] The AR-15 was found to be three times more reliable than the M14 rifle. [3]

  5. Apalachee shooter used an AR-15. Why are these weapons ... - AOL

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    Why do so many mass shooters use AR-15s? Partly because so many Americans have them, partly because they're designed to be easy, cheap and effective. Apalachee shooter used an AR-15.

  6. Roberti–Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 - Wikipedia

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    The Roberti–Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 (AWCA) is a California law that bans the ownership and transfer of over 50 specific brands and models of firearms, which were classified as assault weapons. Most were rifles, but some were pistols and shotguns. The law was amended in 1999 to classify assault weapons by features of the firearm.

  7. Trump shot with AR-15-style gun. What is an AR-15, and why ...

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    An AR-15 is not a specific model, but a style. It's the civilian variation of the ArmaLite AR-15, a variant of the AR-10 designed by Eugene Stoner in the 1950s, that was extremely lightweight ...

  8. AR-15–style rifle - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, the term "modern sporting rifle" was coined by the National Shooting Sports Foundation for its survey that year as a marketing term used by the firearms industry to describe modular semi-automatic rifles including AR-15s. [23] [4] [24] [12] Today, nearly every major firearm manufacturer produces its own generic AR-15–style rifle.

  9. What can an AR-15 do to the human body? A trauma surgeon ...

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    The hashtag was created in 2018 in response to an NRA tweet that ... one at a California bar that year that ended in 12 deaths and another at a Pittsburgh synagogue, where 11 people were killed ...