In 1994, the federal government passed a law that effectively banned the manufacture or sale of assault-style weapons for civilian use. This ban expired in 2004, however, and in the years since ...

Other rifles based on the philosophy of the StG 44, like the AK47 and the M16, are also called assault rifles. Today, the AR in AR-15 still stands for ArmaLite Rifle, even though Colt popularized it.

For example, common hunting caliber bullets (.270, .308, .30-06) strike with around twice the energy of AR ... The power and velocity of assault rifle bullets pose a particularly high risk to law ...

Washington is now the ninth state to ban sales of a wide swath of mostly semi-automatic weapons including AR-15s and other firearms that have become symbols over their use in mass shootings.. Gov ...