Bushmaster XM-15

The Bushmaster XM-15 is a line of AR-15 style rifles, carbines, and pistols manufactured by Bushmaster Firearms International. Quotes 2010 Consider your man card reissued. If it's good enough for the professional, it's good enough for you. Bushmaster. The world's finest commercial AR-platform rifle. Bushmaster Firearms International advertisement, 2010 through 2012 (Bushmaster Firearms, Your Man Card Is Revoked Hamilton Nolan Gawker December 17, 2012 September 22, 2018 http://gawker.com/5969150/bushmaster-firearms-your-man-card-is-revoked; Gunmaker’s ads influenced Adam Lanza to buy AR-15 assault rifle for Sandy Hook massacre, lawyer says Esha Ray Larry McShane New York Daily News November 14, 2017 September 22, 2018 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lawyer-gun-maker-not-blame-sandy-hook-ar-15-ads-article-1.3632565; Not man enough? Buy a gun Paul Waldman CNN December 21, 2012 September 22, 2018 https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/20/opinion/waldman-guns-manhood/index.html; Consider Your Man Card Reissued: Masculine Honor and Gun Violence Amy Shuffelton August 24, 2015 10.1111/edth.12123 Educational Theory 65 4 387-403; Remington’s Bankruptcy Stalls Ruling in Sandy Hook Families’ Suit The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/nyregion/remington-sandy-hook-shooting.html Kristin Hussey Rick Rojas April 1, 2018 September 22, 2018; Sandy Hook families cannot hold gun company liable in massacre, judge rules The Guardian Lois Beckett October 14, 2016 September 22, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/14/sandy-hook-massacre-families-gun-company-lawsuit-ruling; How Macho Ads for Assault Rifles Might Backfire Erik Larson June 13, 2016 September 22, 2018 Bloomberg News https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-13/how-macho-ads-for-assault-rifles-might-backfire; December 17, 2012 September 22, 2018 Bushmaster Rifle Ad Reminds Us To Ask More About Masculinity And Gun Violence Emma Gray HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-gray/bushmaster-rifle-ad-masculinity-gun-violence-newtown-adam-lanza_b_2317924.html; Toxic gaming culture can’t fully explain the Jacksonville Madden shooting Katherine Cross August 30, 2018 September 26, 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17799582/jacksonville-madden-tournament-shooting-toxic-gaming-culture Vox Media The Verge). The Freedom Group, a “family” of gun companies cobbled together by Cerberus Capital Management (the former owners of Chrysler, among many other things), has just filed new documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in anticipation of a long-threatened stock IPO (Initial Public Offering). And the picture isn’t pretty.Freedom Group companies run the gamut from sporting arms to assault weapons. In addition to Bushmaster and DPMS (two leading manufacturers of AR-15 type assault rifles), companies and brands that comprise Freedom Group include: Remington, Marlin, Harrington & Richardson, New England Firearms, L.C. Smith, Dakota Arms, Advanced Armament Corporation, and Barnes Bullets. Freedom Group states that it has the number one U.S. market position in shotguns (31 percent), ammunition (33 percent), traditional rifles (37 percent), and “modern sporting rifles” (48 percent). Josh Sugarmann Josh Sugarmann Obama Gun Boom Comes to an Official End May 20, 2010 October 17, 2018 HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-gun-boom-comes-to-a_b_583361 2012 The first concrete responses to the massacre in Newtown, Conn., began emerging on Tuesday, as state leaders proposed measures to curb gun violence, corporations distanced themselves from an event that has traumatized the nation and the White House pointed to gun control measures that President Obama would champion in the months ahead.The reactions were considerably more broad-based than what had followed previous mass shootings, coming from Republicans as well as Democrats, from gun control advocates and those who have favored gun rights in the past, and even from the corporate and retail worlds. Proponents of stricter controls on firearms said they were cautiously optimistic that, perhaps this time, something concrete and lasting would be enacted...The fallout extended to the corporate world. Cerberus Capital Management announced that it was selling the Freedom Group, which makes the .223 Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle used in the massacre. Broad Gun Control Efforts Introduced in Wake of Shooting Adam Nagourney December 18, 2012 October 26, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/us/states-leaders-proposing-steps-to-control-guns.html The New York Times The Bushmaster a variant of a type of gun called the AR-15 ... which was designed and developed for military use roughly during the Vietnam War period. It is one of a variety of assault rifles that militaries of the world developed when they realized that most soldiers do not — when they're engaged in combat — do not take accurate aim, do not fire at long distances, but rather just spray bullets in the general direction of the enemy at short to medium range. When the military accepted this as a fact — that soldiers are not marksmen, and they tend to just fire in bursts at ambiguous targets, and in fact most battlefield injuries are the result of just being where the bullet is and not someone actually aiming at you — the militaries of the world said, 'OK, we need a type of gun to give our soldiers that will do just that.' ... This was the genesis of the assault rifle. The first one was developed by the Germans in 1944. It was called the StG-44. The Soviet army quickly ... made a design similar to it, which is called the AK-47, probably the most widely used rifle in the world. Tom Diaz, policy analyst for the Violence Policy Center, on the Bushmaster XM-15 used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (Assault-Style Weapons In The Civilian Market December 20, 2012 Fresh Air NPR https://www.npr.org/2012/12/20/167694808/assault-style-weapons-in-the-civilian-market). High-capacity magazines have been used in numerous mass shootings, including the Dec. 14 attack at a school in Newtown, Conn. Police said that Adam Lanza loaded his Bushmaster rifle with multiple 30-round magazines to shoot and kill 20 school children and six educators before committing suicide. Assault rifles are selling out Aaron Smith December 31, 2012 November 7, 2018 CNN http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/31/news/companies/assault-rifles-gun-sales/index.html 2013 If you wanted to know how many Bushmasters have been used in what kinds of crime for the last five years, that information is in ATF’s files. But it can’t be released because of the Tiahrt Amendment. Tom Diaz (Rolling Stone The NRA vs. America w:Tim Dickinson Tim Dickinson January 31, 2013 October 7, 2018 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-nra-vs-america-105280/). The NRA’s 2012 Nominating Committee Chairman was Patricia A. Clark, a competitive sports shooter and longtime NRA board director who happens to live in Newtown, Connecticut just a few miles from the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Quietly serving under her on the same 2012 Nominating Committee was George Kollitides II, the chief executive officer of the North Carolina-based Freedom Group, one of the nation’s largest gun making consortiums that made the Bushmaster AR-15 rifled used in Newtown, last summer in Aurora, Colorado, and in and around Washington by the DC sniper a decade earlier. Introducing the NRA kingmakers February 26, 2013 Frank Smyth NBC News MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/introducing-the-nra-kingmakers 2016 On July 20, 2012, a mass murderer killed 12 and wounded 58 others at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., using a Smith & Wesson M&P15. On Dec. 12, 2012, another mass murderer killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., using his mother's Bushmaster XM15-E2S. The letter and number suffixes belie a simple truth -- the guts of both guns look just like an M-16 or, as it is known for civilian use, an AR-15. OK, the M-16 can fire in fully automatic mode but otherwise, the same.In Orlando just this month, it was a similar type of semiautomatic assault weapon, a Sig Sauer MCX, that helped claim 49 lives. Kingsbury Alex Meet the must-have Bling for Your Gun Boston Globe June 16 2016 2017 Here is a list of mass shootings in the U.S. that featured AR-15 style rifles during the last 35 years, courtesy of the Stanford Geospatial Center and Stanford Libraries and USA TODAY research:Feb. 24, 1984: Tyrone Mitchell, 28, used an AR-15, a Stoeger 12-gauge shotgun and a Winchester 12-gauge shotgun to kill two and wound 12 at 49th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles before killing himself.Oct. 7, 2007: Tyler Peterson, 20, used an AR-15 to kill six and injure one at an apartment in Crandon, Wis., before killing himself.June 20, 2012: James Eagan Holmes, 24, used an AR-15-style .223-caliber Smith and Wesson rifle with a 100-round magazine, a 12-gauge Remington shotgun and two .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic pistols to kill 12 and injure 58 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.Dec. 14, 2012: Adam Lanza, 20, used an AR-15-style rifle, a .223-caliber Bushmaster, to kill 27 people — his mother, 20 students and six teachers — in Newtown, Conn., before killing himself.June 7, 2013: John Zawahri, 23, used an AR-15-style .223-caliber rifle and a .44-caliber Remington revolver to kill five and injure three at a home in Santa Monica, Calif., before he was killed.March 19, 2015: Justin Fowler, 24, used an AR-15 to kill one and injure two on a street in Little Water, N.M., before he was killed.May 31, 2015: Jeffrey Scott Pitts, 36, used an AR-15 and .45-caliber handgun to kill two and injure two at a store in Conyers, Ga., before he was killed.Oct. 31, 2015: Noah Jacob Harpham, 33, used an AR-15, a .357-caliber revolver and a 9mm semi-automatic pistol to kill three on a street in Colorado Springs, Colo., before he was killed.Dec. 2, 2015: Syed Rizwyan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, 28 and 27, used two AR-15-style, .223-caliber Remington rifles and two 9 mm handguns to kill 14 and injure 21 at his workplace in San Bernardino, Calif., before they were killed.June 12, 2016: Omar Mateen, 29, used an AR-15 style rifle (a Sig Sauer MCX), and a 9mm Glock semi-automatic pistol to kill 49 people and injure 50 at an Orlando nightclub before he was killed.Oct. 1, 2017: Stephen Paddock, 64, used a stockpile of guns including an AR-15 to kill 58 people and injure hundreds at a music festival in Las Vegas before he killed himself.Nov. 5, 2017: Devin Kelley, 26, used an AR-15 style Ruger rifle to kill 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before he was killed.Feb. 14, 2018: Police say Nikolas Cruz, 19, used an AR-15-style rifle to kill at least 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Why mass shooters are increasingly using AR-15s Bart Jansen William Cummings USA Today November 6, 2017 October 9, 2018 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/06/ar-15-style-rifles-common-among-mass-shootings/838283001/; USA Today Why the AR-15 keeps appearing at America's deadliest mass shootings William Cummings Bart Jansen February 14, 2018 September 23, 2018 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/14/ar-15-mass-shootings/339519002/ 2018 In focusing their anger on the likes of Wayne LaPierre, the survivors are distracted from the likes of James Debney, whose company actually designed, produced and marketed the weapon that killed so many innocents at their school. Debney knew it was a weapon of war. He also knew, or at least should have known, that M&P15 fires bullets of such velocity that when it hits flesh the accompanying shock wave extends the damage considerably outside the path of the bullet, shredding tissue, destroying entire organs, disintegrating blood vessels. He also knew that the M&P15 is a virtual twin to the Bushmaster AR-15 used with horrific effect on little kids at Sandy Hook.And yet he had kept selling it. Debney earns more than $5 million a year in what the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors would no doubt consider blood money. He Made the Gun That Slaughtered Parkland’s Kids Michael Daly February 24, 2018 November 12, 2018 The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-made-the-gun-that-slaughtered-parklands-kids Light, precise and with little recoil, the Colt Armalite Rifle-15 Sporter hit the market in the early 1960s as the first civilian version of the military’s M16 rifle. What set it apart was, much like its military counterpart, the inventor Eugene Stoner’s patented gas operating system, which allowed for rapid fire and reloading. The weapon could easily handle a 20-round magazine, was easy to disassemble and was marketed, in one of Colt’s early advertisements, to hunters, campers and collectors.Billed as “America’s rifle” by the National Rifle Association, the AR-15 is less a specific weapon than a family of them. When Mr. Stoner’s rights to the gas system expired in 1977, it opened the way for dozens of weapons manufacturers to produce their own models, using the same technology. The term AR-15 has become a catchall that includes a variety of weapons that look and operate similarly, including the Remington Bushmaster, the Smith & Wesson M&P15 and the Springfield Armory Saint.Over the ensuing decades, as the American military modified the M16’s exterior to allow for accessories such as sights, grips and flashlights, the civilian market followed. Today, gun enthusiasts consider the AR-15 the Erector Set of firearms. Once Banned, Now Loved and Loathed: How the AR-15 Became ‘America’s Rifle’ The New York Times Ali Watkins John Ismay Thomas Gibbons-Neff March 3, 2018 June 10, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/us/politics/ar-15-americas-rifle.html According to a report from the Tazewell County Sheriff's Office, authorities seized a Kimber 9 mm handgun, a Bushmaster AR-15 style rifle, a CZ-USA .22-caliber rifle, a Remington 710 and random ammunition. The AR-15 style rifle listed was the same weapon used in Sunday's Waffle House shooting, which killed four people, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police. Amir Vera Waffle House shooter was once arrested by Secret Service for trespassing near White House April 22, 2018 October 19, 2018 CNN https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/04/22/us/waffle-house-shooter-white-house/index.html; I Don't Understand Gun Culture and I Never Will Charles P. Pierce w:Charles Pierce April 23, 2018 October 19, 2018 Esquire https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19901539/waffle-house-shooter-dad-gun-culture/ ...on Aug. 24, 2017, Tazewell deputies retrieved Reinking's guns, including one Kimber 9mm pistol, a Bushmaster AR-15, CZ USA .22 caliber rifle, and a Remington 710 with miscellaneous ammunition, according to a report filed.Reinking's firearms license was also revoked, according to the report.The weapons landed back in Reinking's father's possession.The father admitted to authorities Sunday that he gave the guns back to his son, according to the police statement.One of the weapons, an AR-15, was allegedly used in the Waffle House slayings, police said. Waffle House mass shooting: What we know about the suspect M. L. Nestel April 22, 2018 October 19, 2018 ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/waffle-house-mass-shooting-suspect/story?id=54649864 On December 14, 2012, a Bushmaster XM-15 was used by 20-year-old Adam Lanza to kill 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Less than five months after the Newtown shooting, the company’s leadership was honored by the National Rifle Association at the NRA’s annual meeting with other gun industry financial supporters who had “given gifts of cash totaling $1,000,000 or more.” The Militarized Marketing of Bushmaster Assault Rifles April 2018 October 19, 2018 Violence Policy Center http://vpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Bushmaster2018.pdf Remington Outdoor Company, formerly known as Freedom Group, is one of the largest gun manufacturers in the world and specializes in assault rifles and other military-style firearms. The company made the Bushmaster XM-15 assault rifle reportedly used at the Waffle House shooting in Nashville, Tennessee as well as the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. An XM-15 was also used in the 2002 Washington, DC-area sniper attacks. The Militarized Marketing of Bushmaster Assault Rifles April 2018 October 19, 2018 Violence Policy Center http://vpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Bushmaster2018.pdf Manliness means violent domination, a point not lost on gun manufacturers. Bushmaster, the maker of the AR-15 rifle — which has been at the center of many mass shootings — advertised the gun with a “Consider Your Man Card Reissued” tagline. Toxic gaming culture can’t fully explain the Jacksonville Madden shooting Katherine Cross August 30, 2018 September 26, 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17799582/jacksonville-madden-tournament-shooting-toxic-gaming-culture Vox Media The Verge See also AR-15 style rifle Stoneman Douglas High School shooting‎ External links Category:Weapons