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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]
The Colt AR-15 is a product line of magazine-fed, gas-operated, autoloading rifle manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company ("Colt") in many configurations. [1] The rifle is a derivative of its predecessor, the lightweight ArmaLite AR-15, an automatic rifle designed by Eugene Stoner and other engineers at ArmaLite in 1956.
An AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle was used in more than a dozen high-profile mass shootings in the past decade.
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.
The company was known as the Arms Corporation of the Philippines (Armscor) until 2017. [ 1 ] The company has been headquartered in Marikina , Philippines since 1958 [ 2 ] and represented in the United States by its subsidiary Armscor International, Inc., located in Pahrump, Nevada with facilities in Stevensville, Montana .
The AR-15 became one of America's most popular guns after the end of the Assault Weapons Ban in 2004 and has been used in some of the most horrific mass shootings in the United States, including ...
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.
Gun law in the Philippines is regulated by the Firearms and Explosives Office of the Philippine National Police. In order to possess a firearm in the Philippines , a person must be at a minimum age of 21 years and pass a background check to be issued a License To Own And Possess Firearms (LTOPF).