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The Safir T-15 is a semi-automatic rifle based on the AR-15.It is intended for civilian and police use, but Safir arms makes selective-fire version of the same design as the T-16 for military customers as well as a manually operated version for those who can not legally own semiautomatic rifles.
It must be an individual weapon; It must be capable of selective fire, which means it has the capacity to switch between semi-automatic and burst/fully automatic fire; [4] It must have an intermediate-power cartridge: more power than a pistol but less than a standard rifle or battle rifle. For full-power automatic rifles, see List of battle rifles;
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
The rifle model is based on the Colt AR-15. Smith & Wesson offers the M&P15 semi-automatic rifles in different configurations, tailored to specific shooting applications and styles. The rifle has different models that come chambered in 5.56mm NATO/.223 Remington, .22 Long Rifle, and 5.45×39mm.
The “AR” in AR-15 rifle stands for ArmaLite Rifle, after the company that developed it in 1957. The letters do not stand for “assault rifle” or “automatic rifle.” In 1959, Colt ...
Reporters Zusha Elinson and Cameron McWhirter discuss their fascinating and dispiriting new book, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15."
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The first time wherein an AR-15–style rifle was used in a mass shooting was in 2007, during the Crandon shooting, according to Mother Jones ' s mass shooting database. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] Gun expert Dean Hazen and mass murder researcher Pete Blair think that mass shooters' gun choices have less to do with the AR-15's specific characteristics but ...