AR-15

English + style rifle Etymology en ArmaLite rifle, which was named after the company that originally designed the weapon. Noun AR-15 en trademark A lightweight, semi-automatic rifle, based on the original design of the ArmaLite AR-15. en David Heath, Elise Hansen and AJ Willingham, CNN Design: Joyce Tseng How an ‘ugly,’ unwanted weapon became the most popular rifle in America w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/health/ar15-rifle-history-trnd 2017-12-14 Not long after it started selling M-16s to the military, Colt began marketing the semi-automatic AR-15 to civilians. https://web.archive.org/web/20251114100100/https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/health/ar15-rifle-history-trnd 14 November 2025 en 2018-02-16 Julie Vitkovskaya; Patrick Martin https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/02/15/4-basic-questions-about-the-ar-15/ w:The Washington Post 4 basic questions about the AR-15 An AR-15 once again made an appearance at a mass shooting, this time at a Parkland, Fla., high school on Wednesday. The suspect in the shooting, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, purchased the semiautomatic rifle about a year ago, according to a law enforcement official. https://web.archive.org/web/20230330072646/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/02/15/4-basic-questions-about-the-ar-15/ 30 March 2023 en Susie Linfield Should We Be Forced to See Exactly What an AR-15 Does to a 10-Year-Old? w:The New York Times 2022-05-31 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/opinion/uvalde-shooting-photos.html 0362-4331 Should We Be Forced to See Exactly What an AR-15 Does to a 10-Year-Old? [title] https://web.archive.org/web/20251031202838/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/opinion/uvalde-shooting-photos.html 31 October 2025 en Michael Fanone Opinion: Here’s the reason people tell me they want to buy an AR-15. And it’s simply ludicrous w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/opinions/guns-ar-15-uvalde-school-shooting-fanone/index.html 2022-06-05 And outlawing these AR-15s would not require confiscating them from people who already have them. Once you’ve made these weapons illegal, anyone found with one would be subject to arrest, since possession of these weapons would be a crime. I think it’s likely that you would see a lot of people opting to turn them in. https://web.archive.org/web/20260817045143/https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/opinions/guns-ar-15-uvalde-school-shooting-fanone/index.html 17 August 2026 en How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor? Helen Lewis w:The Atlantic 2023-03-27 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ron-desantis-florida-state-politics-gop/673489/ In the past decade, semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 have become the weapon of choice for young killers, and I needed to see what America was willing to put into the hands of teenagers in the name of freedom. https://web.archive.org/web/20260830120014/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ron-desantis-florida-state-politics-gop/673489/ 30 August 2026 Translations Finnish: colloquial fi arska en Firearms