During Thursday’s edition of ABC’s “The View” co-host Joy Behar expressed bewilderment that Gov. Chris Sununu (R) will not ban the AR-15, which she described as “automatic rifle” used in high profile shootings.
CLAIM: During Friday’s airing of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) claimed an AR-15 rifle is an “automatic weapon.” VERDICT: False. AR-15s are semiautomatic firearms.
A Maryland man has been showing up at a bus stop every day with an AR-15 for weeks, explaining his neighborhood is paying police to do something regular citizens can do for free.
Texas state Rep. Justin Holland (R-Rockwall) caved to gun controllers Monday and voted in support of a bill, HB 2744, to raise the minimum purchase age for AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21.
Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera reacted to the Allen, Texas, outlet mall attack by suggesting that politicians who pose with AR-15s should also pose with dead bodies.
Gun control Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted Sunday that AR-15 rifles are not necessary for hunting or self-defense and suggested mass shooters would be those “most affected” by an “assault weapons” ban.
Unsuccessful Senate, presidential, and gubernatorial hopeful Beto O’Rourke called for more gun control in response to the news that a Mexican national, who had been deported four times, had shot and killed five Honduran neighbors in Cleveland, Texas.
Wyoming House Minority Whip Karlee Provenza (D) posted a meme of a grandma using an AK-47 to protect transgender people on Saturday, less than a week after a 28-year-old transgender person went into a Christian school and shot six people dead.
Surveillance photographs and video footage shows the 28-year-old transgender suspect who attacked the Nashville Christian school was using a carbine which fires pistol rounds, not an AR-15.
CLAIM: During his Tuesday gun control push, President Biden said that AR-15 bullets “blow up” once they get inside the human body.
On March 20, 2023, the Texas Tribune claimed the AR-15 was the U.S. infantry rifle used by soldiers during the Vietnam War.
A March 20, 2023, Texas Tribune report claims officers, many of whom were armed with AR-15s, were afraid to confront the lone Uvalde school attacker, who was allegedly armed with an AR-15.
Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) announced legislation Tuesday to recognize the AR-15 rifle as the “National Gun of America.”
Pierce Fire and Rescue, located in Norfolk, Nebraska, is hosting an AR-15 golf tournament this spring to raise money for firefighting equipment.
Police in Omaha, Nebraska, shot and killed a man in his 30s Tuesday who allegedly walked into a Target store and fired rounds.
Geraldo Rivera tweeted video of a truck-mounted machine gun in Mogadishu Wednesday as part of his continuing effort to prove AR-15s are machine guns and should be banned.
FOX News personality Geraldo Rivera backed President Biden’s push for an “assault weapons” ban and said that the “AR” in AR-15 stands for “automatic rifle” on “The Five” Tuesday.
A lawsuit filed against Daniel Defense and Oasis Outback gun store suggests AR-15 rifles carry a special appeal because they are “accurate every time,” even when the attacker has no “previous weapons training or experience.”
Former MMA fighter Tim Kennedy appeared on Lance Armstrong’s “The Forward” podcast in March 2018, where he criticized American gun laws and voiced support for barring AR-15 access for 19-year-olds.
Illinois Democrat state Rep. Bob Morgan is pushing “assault weapons” registration and a gun owner’s fee and claims that AR-15s are not used to defend against home intruders.
The New York Times is being mocked after its editorial board published an op-ed criticizing “toxic gun culture” and used a photo of shotgun shells while referring to AR-15s.
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) is weighing a push to end or repeal a grandfathering clause in a gun control bill in order to force residents to hand over any AR-15s.
Philadelphia gas station owner Neil Patel hired security guards with AR-15s to deal with all the “nonsense, drug trafficking, hanging around, [and] gangs” endangering his employees.
Democrats in the Colorado legislature are eyeing a mass gun control push to include an “assault weapons” ban and changing the state’s red flag law.
Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety filed a lawsuit over the May 24, 2022, Uvalde elementary school shooting and in the suit they claim Daniel Defense failed “to act to reasonably prevent” the Uvalde attack.
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On Tuesday, Pennsylvania’s Pittston Area School District revealed it had placed one shotgun and one AR-15 in each of its schools for use by a resource officer in the event of an attack.
During a Friday speech to the National Education Association, President Joe Biden reiterated his jumbled claim about the speed at which AR-15 bullets move compared to bullets fired from other guns.
During a speech to a teachers’ union Friday, President Joe Biden admitted that AR-15s, AK-47s, and other guns Democrats call “assault weapons” are designed “to defend people.”
Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Edward Markey (D-MS) are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate marketing practices of gun manufacturers.
People across the nation rallied around North Carolina’s East Henderson Youth Football and Cheerleading League after it faced backlash for raffling a rifle to raise money for equipment.
A youth football and cheerleading league in North Carolina received criticism for the decision to raffle an AR-15 rifle, which the raffle organizers refer to as a “Freedom Stick.”
During his Tuesday speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden again threatened his political enemies via the mention of F-15 jets.
While speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday President Biden said, “The bullet out of an AR-15 travels fives times a rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun.”
Parkland father Fred Guttenberg, an outspoken gun control proponent, claims Madison County, North Carolina’s, plan to have AR-15s for classroom defense is “absolute insanity.”
A woman detained in Grady County, Oklahoma, slipped out of her handcuffs in the back of a patrol car, grabbed the officer’s AR-15, and striking a bystander with bullet fragments.
Houston Independent School District approved over $2 million in funding for rifles, ballistic shields, ammunition, and communication devices for school resource officers throughout the district.
Florida’s Indian River County School District has added an AR-15 to every school so students returning to class in the fall will have school resource officers who can access rifles in the event of an attack.
Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke (D) called a campaign rally attendee a “motherf*cker” Wednesday after he laughed at O’Rourke’s hyperbolic description of the AR-15 rifle.
North Carolina’s Madison County School District has put an AR-15 in a safe in every school in the county so the guns can be accessed for classroom defense in case of attack.
