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The Ares Defense Shrike 5.56 is an air-cooled, dual-feed light machine gun/rifle for semi or full-auto configurations that fires the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge. The Shrike 5.56 is sold as either as a complete weapon, or as an upper receiver "performance upgrade kit" to existing AR-15 and M16-type service rifles and carbines.
Assault rifles are full-length, select fire rifles that are chambered for an intermediate-power rifle cartridge that use a detachable magazine. Assault rifles are currently the standard service rifles in most modern militaries. Some rifles listed below, such as the AR-15, also come in semi-auto models that would not belong under the term ...
Ares Incorporated is an American weapons manufacturer and firearms engineering company co-founded by the American weapons inventor and developer Eugene Stoner in 1971. The company is based in Port Clinton, Ohio , and produces fire control systems, turret systems, small arms, automatic cannons and industrial machinery.
A common misconception is that "AR" is an abbreviation for "assault rifle" or "automatic rifle", [13] [14] [15] perhaps because of the weapon's inclusion in the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, or because the ArmaLite AR-15 was originally designed to replace the M14 rifle in the Vietnam War. [16]
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday again declined to block a Democratic-backed state ban in Illinois on assault-style rifles and large capacity magazines enacted after a deadly mass ...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a gun law in Maryland that bans assault-style weapons such as the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, which has been used in various high-profile ...
Assault rifle Brazil: 2012–present AR-M1: Assault rifle Bulgaria: 2000–present Colt Canada C7: Assault rifle Canada 1984–present Colt Canada C8: Carbine Canada: 1994–present Colt Canada C9: Light machine gun Canada: 1980s–present Licensed copy of the FN Minimi. Norinco CQ: Assault rifle China 1980s-present Unlicensed copy of the M16 ...
What is an AR-15 rifle, and why is it so popular. A similar firearm was used by the Jacksonville, Florida shooter at a Dollar General, officials said.