A 9mm bullet from the same distance takes a relatively linear path. Because that bullet doesn’t produce the same blast effect, it causes far less damage. The bullet from the AR-15 leaves behind ...

A 22-year-old Lubbock man was sentenced Thursday to two and 1/2 years in prison after admitting to ordering parts to convert AR-15 rifles into machine guns. Christopher James Garcia faced up to 10 ...

An Evansville man was sentenced to seven years in federal prison on Friday after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of a ...

Officers found approximately 60 "glock switches," which convert semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic machine guns, at ...

A Colorado Springs police officer at the annual Medal of Valor ceremony in September. The city police department has responded to several mass shootings in recent years, and many officers now ...

In May, 2023, a man killed eight people at a suburban Dallas mall with an AR-15-style rifle and wounded seven others. Days before, another killed five neighbors in a rural Texas home after one of ...

And, even then, the AR-15 was incredibly lethal. It shoots a .223 Caliber or 5.56 mm round at roughly 3,300 feet per second, which is about three times the muzzle velocity of a typical Glock pistol.

An assistant chief in the Denver Fire Department was fired last month after he brought an AR-15 rifle to a public park and loaded the gun during a mental health crisis in March, according to a ...

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