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Police arrested three men in Florida for aiming AR-15 rifles at the street from a Miami Beach penthouse balcony.

Sales of AR-15 rifles equipped with “bullet buttons” are flying off gun store shelves as Californians try to buy the guns before newly-signed gun controls take effect in California.

The United Way of Otero County New Mexico was told to halt its raffle of firearms after a board member of another United Way chapter filed a complaint to United Way Worldwide headquarters, but the organization has now reversed course

During an August 19 campaign stop in North Carolina, Donald Trump shot an M4 rifle with Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell.

Republican Eric Greitens is a former Navy SEAL who is running for the office of Governor of Missouri.

The Oregon reverend — who spent $3,000 in church funds to win an AR-15 so he could destroy it — ended up giving the gun to a parishioner “for safe keeping” and may now face charges for failure to perform a background check.

Anne Verrill, owner of Grace restaurant in Maine, is refusing service to anyone who owns an AR-15 or even supports the idea of owning one.

Jeremy Lucas, reverend of Christ Church Episcopal Parish in Lake Oswego, Oregon, spent $3,000 in church “discretionary funds” to win an AR-15 so he could “destroy” it.

Fifty-eight Massachusetts lawmakers — both Democratic and Republican — signed a letter to state Attorney General Maura Healey (D) condemning her July 20 issuance of a directive expanding the state’s nearly 20-year-old “assault weapons” ban.

FBI crime stats for 2014 show that no rifles of any kind–“assault” rifles or otherwise–were used to murder state residents in 2014, the last year for which such stats are available.

The Massachusetts AG said she made the decision after “assault weapons” were recently used in high-profile attacks in Baton Rouge, Dallas, and Orlando, and prior to that in Newtown, Aurora, and San Bernardino. She did not tie any of these attacks to sales in her state, but she is ending the sales nonetheless.

Two left-wing activists who came to Cleveland to protest against Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention were sporting AR-15 rifles and suppressors (“silencers”) outside the security perimeter Tuesday evening as delegates voted for the party nominee inside the Quicken Loans Arena.

Gun store owners in California say the demand for AR-15s has skyrocketed in the wake of the new gun controls signed by Governor Jerry Brown (D) on July 1.

A man is dead after opening fire on four Baltimore police officers on Thursday night.

On Tuesday Democrats in the House and Senate put forward legislation to bar individuals 16 years and younger from shooting AR-15s. The bill also bars individuals 16 years and under from shooting a machine gun, and this would include “blocking

On July 11 investigators looking into the Dallas Police ambush said the gunman purchased his weapons “legally.”

On July 9, two days after the heinous ambush on Dallas Police officers, citizens armed with AR-15s stood guard outside various police departments in Texas.

In the wake of Dallas Police ambush, left-wing voices renewed their calls for a ban on AR-15 rifles. However, a CBS News report shows that such a ban would have been impotent because the gunman used an SKS rifle rather than an AR-15.

During the July 7 airing of Hannity, Fox News’ Casey Stegall stood on the street in downtown Dallas and used the word “automatic” to describe the gunfire during the police ambush.

Just days after Governor Jerry Brown signed an “assault weapons” ban on rifles with “bullet buttons,” among other California gun laws, the inventor of the button has introduced the “Patriot Mag Release,” a device that makes even the AR-15 California-compliant.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) spoke Saturday on MSNBC about the AR-15 just days before the House of Represenatives is supposed to vote on legislation regarding certain types of firearms. According to Maloney, the AR-15 is a “military-type gun” that is “not used

With incessant calls to ban “assault weapons” arising from the Democrat Party — calls that sometimes hit a fever pitch when you add in the voices of Democratic surrogates in the media and gun control groups — it seems to be a good time to ask a key question: What is an “assault weapon?”

An NBC News/WSJ polled conducted after the Orlando terror attack shows half of voters distrust the government on gun control.

Hunter’s Warehouse says it sold 30,000 AR-15s during the first seven days following the Orlando, Florida, terrorist attack.

It only took them 15 minutes to buy an AR-15!

A Chicago journalist dedicated to investigating the ease with which one can acquire an AR-15 had his purchase denied based on a “domestic battery” charge uncovered by the gun store.

DESTIN, FL – On Monday, Florida State Sen. Greg Evers, a candidate for the soon-to-be-open Florida first congressional district seat, announced he was giving away an AR-15 assault rifle to promote “self-reliance in the face of Islamic terrorism.” Evers announcement

Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) stated that a person who buys an AR-15 “isn’t buying it for target shooting. They’re not buying it to go out and hunt deer. You don’t need an AK-47 or an AR-15 to hunt deer. They’re

Because of the frenzied push to ban “assault rifles” in general and AR-15s specifically — together with the media’s clear attempt to malign the AR at every turn — Breitbart News thought it would be the perfect time to share six reasons why it makes sense to buy an AR-15 now.

During a private meeting on Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi rejected the “assault weapons” ban being pushed my Democrat colleagues and Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson.

On June 16, renowned AR-15 designer and manufacturer Daniel Defense sent Breitbart News a press release in which they announced an end to their business relationship with Academy Sports.

Amid the feverish, knee-jerk push to ban AR-15s as a way of ending mass shootings, The Washington Post points out that most mass shooters use handguns, not AR-15s.

Fox News personalities Gretchen Carlson and Bill O’Reilly have chosen to respond to the Orlando terror attack by focusing on guns. They are fighting to keep guns away from terrorists — an approach that can only result in more gun laws for law-abiding citizens — instead of fighting to keep terrorists away from guns.

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report for 2014 shows that more than twice as many people are beaten to death each year than are shot to death with rifles of every kind.

On Tuesday, United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said current U.S. gun laws “lack rational justification.”

On June 13, the Philadelphia Inquirer weighed in on the feeding frenzy against AR-15s with a column that claimed a waiting period could have prevented Adam Lanza from opening fire on Sandy Hook innocents.