Aahh, the oh-so-controversial AR-15, the semiauto-only civilian market version of the U.S. Armed Forces’ M16 rifle. Everybody knows the “AR” stands for “Assault Rifle,” right?

TASS/. Russia’s manufacturer of ORSIS rifles (Promtechnologia) has come up with a smooth bore counterpart of the US assault rifle AR-15 (its military version is known as M16), the company said ...