military selected Colt to manufacture the automatic rifle that soon became standard issue for U.S. But, he added, "We've just decided that based on what's happened and with these guns, we don't want to be part of this story." "I'm a gun owner myself," Ed Stack, the company's chief executive officer, told ABC's Good Morning America. This has reignited the debate about their widespread availability.ĭick's Sporting Goods announced Wednesday that it would no longer sell these assault-style weapons. Yet over the past decade, the AR-15 and its offshoots have been used in many of the country's worst mass shootings. And we'll explain in a moment.įor more than a half-century, the AR-15 has been popular among gun owners, widely available in gun stores and, for many years, even appeared in the Sears catalog. What weapon did the gunman use in the recent shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida? The semi-automatic rifle has been sold to the public since the 1960s and the NRA estimates that around 8 million AR-15s and related models are in circulation.
John Jackson, co-owner of Capitol City Arms Supply, with an AR-15 rifle for sale at his store in Springfield, Ill., in 2013.
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