AR-15

(Reuters) - Three people died in a shooting outside a Walmart store in Oklahoma on Monday morning, law enforcement officials said, the third fatal shooting at the retailer in five months and the latest in a string of gun violence across the United States. Vi…

What are assault weapons and why are they being demonized? To begin with, the appellation assault weapon is a misnomer, a disparaging political label. It was invented by Josh Sugarmann, a media-lionized gun control advocate, as a political tool to demonize se…

A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has upended a longstanding legal roadblock that has given the gun industry far-reaching immunity from lawsuits in the aftermath of mass killings. The court this week allowed families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook…

OPINION: The people who sell the weapon of choice for mass killers are going to have to reveal exactly how they peddle their message that wielding a weapon designed for military combat makes sense for ordinary civilians. That's good news for all Americans. …

3D printing hasn’t lived up to the hype about a decade after the first consumer-ready printers hit the market. The number of people using 3D printers is still small, but some of them are using the devices to make guns. Last year, the Trump administration move…

On Sunday, during a campaign appearance in Iowa, Bernie Sanders broke with several other current and former candidates for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination by saying that he disagrees with confiscating assault weapons from their owners. Using the Dem…

Key point: An interesting AR-15 variant. The AR-15 series of rifles is one of the most versatile long gun platform ever invented. Developed in the late 1950s, the AR-15 is available in broad array of calibers, from .50 Beowulf to .22 Long Rifle. One of the …

The NRA likes to diminish the role that guns play in fatal shootings by saying, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." Which is the same logic as, "Hammers don't build roofs, people build roofs." No duh. But it'd be nearly impossible to build a roof w…

The United States Supreme Court has denied a bid from gun manufacturer Remington Arms Co. to quash a civil lawsuit filed by the families of those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, PEOPLE confirms. The Supreme Court offered no explanation …

The US Capitol lawn is covered with thousands of pairs of empty shoes to memorialize the children killed by gun violence since the Sandy Hook school shooting, in a display organized by the global advocacy group Avaaz in 2018. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The …