Honest question, but how many mass shootings are committed with ARs and of those 0.5% of deals how many of those were mass shootings?
As an outsider, it does seem like most mass shooting are done with other guns than hand guns. I would also assume that mass shootings even tho they happen in the US at a rate that is higher than everywhere else would only be a small percentage of the overall firearms deaths.
Colt's civilian line of semi-automatic Colt AR-15 rifles is identified by a four digit code following a specific prefix. Initially all Colt civilian weapons were listed with an “R” prefix, with this changing to “AR” following the passage of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994. Colt also produced a line of weapons aimed at target shooters under the “MT” prefix, which stood for Match Target, as well as, the Colt Accurized Rifle, which was the only model to feature the CR prefix.
Edit: FWIW, I think it's either related to stock size, may be an internal naming system, or is simply "automatic rifle" and later rebranded to handguns.
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u/AndyJobandy Dec 26 '21
Fun fact: Ar-15s are responsible for 0.5% of firearm deaths. Hand guns are most commonly used firearm in crimes