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Supreme Court Declines To Consider Blue State AR-15 Ban For Now
The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider a challenge to Maryland’s ban on AR–15 rifles. Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas indicated they would have taken the case, according to the court’s…
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About AR-15–style rifle
An AR-15–style rifle is a lightweight semi-automatic rifle based on or similar to the Colt AR-15 design. The Colt model removed the selective fire feature of its predecessor, the original ArmaLite AR-15, which is a scaled-down derivative of the AR-10 design. It is closely related to the military M16 rifle.
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