AR-15-style pistols have much shorter barrels than typical rifles. For example, Ruger’s AR-556 pistol models have barrels between 9.5 and 10.5 inches , or about half-a-foot shorter than its ...

The Ruger AR-556 pistol is one example of an AR pistol made legal by this declaration. The AR-556 has a barrel length of just 10.5 inches and an overall length of 25.3 to 27.9 inches. It is 7.2 ...

The Ruger AR-556 is a type of AR-15, the military-style rifle that has been used in many other mass shootings. The pistol version is essentially the same weapon as the rifle but with a shorter 10. ...

The Ruger AR-556 pistol is one example of an AR pistol made legal by this declaration. The AR-556 has a barrel length of just 10.5 inches and an overall length of 25.3 to 27.9 inches. It is 7.2 ...

Two of those companies, Daniel Defense and Sturm, Ruger & Co., saw their revenues from selling AR-15-style rifles nearly triple from 2019 to 2021.

Venerable gun manufacturer Colt says it will stop producing the AR-15, among other rifles, for the consumer market in the wake of many recent mass shootings in which suspects used the weapon. "At ...

AR-15-style rifles were used by gunmen in New York; Uvalde, Texas; and now Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2022. ... the suspect had an AR-15 style rifle, a Ruger AR-556, ...

The calculation that a .223 round fired from an AR-15 can reach speeds of up to six football fields in a second was made using a 55 grain .223 Remington full metal case round fired at a horizontal ...

Big Number. 24.4 million. That’s how many AR-15 and AK-style rifles were manufactured in the U.S. or imported into the U.S. from 1990 to 2020, according to the National Shooting Sports ...

Washington Post reporter Todd Frankel explains how the AR-15 was adapted from the M16 military combat automatic rifle, and how it became an icon of gun culture and a favored weapon for mass shooters.