AR-15 style rifles are rifles "modeled on the AR-15 platform and that fire the same caliber cartridges," Klarevas said, such as the Smith & Wesson M&P15 and the Ruger AR-556.

AR-15-style rifles were also used at the shootings at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida; at an employee training in San Bernardino, California, and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, ...

On July 29, an AR-15 style rifle was used by a gunman in Baltimore, Maryland, to kill two and injure two more. On July 17, two AR-15 style rifles were among four weapons used in the shooting at ...

AR-15-style rifles were largely banned under the 1994 assault weapons ban. Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP / AP. In this March 15, 2020 file photo people wait in a line to enter a gun store in Culver City, ...

USA TODAY reported that an AR-15-style rifle was what the man the Federal Bureau of Investigation identified as Thomas Matthew Crook, 20, was using. CNN reported Sunday that the gun was used to help ...

AR-15 rifles are displayed at an exhibition booth during the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Dallas on May 18, 2024. [Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria/File Photo] ...

The AR-15 rifle has grown in popularity in recent years as surveys find it is in more and more households. A 2022 Washington Post survey found that about 20% of gun owners had an AR-15 rifle in ...

These AR-15 style rifles were banned between 1994 and 2004. Once the ban was lifted, marketing and sales skyrocketed. There were ads aimed at women with a pink-hued “muddy girl camo.” ...

A North Carolina sheriff's office has placed locked-up AR-15 rifles on a school district's six campuses as an added security measure for the coming school year.

Owners primarily say they buy them for self-defense. A Georgia State law professor says marketing, politics also play a role in the gun's popularity. The AR-15 rifle has grown in popularity in ...