Here is a news article: Here's what you need to know about the guns some are calling "the gold standard for mass murder," after Orlando shooter Omar Mateen used the assault-style rifle Sig Sauer MCX to kill at least 49 people. (Editor's note: This video has been updated with more specific information.) (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post) 
  
 In the hours after Sunday’s mass shooting at an Orlando night club, Chief John Mina of the Orlando Police Department said the gunman’s weapons included a pistol and an “AR-15-type assault rifle.” 
  
 On Monday night, officials clarified that the rifle Omar Mateen used in the shooting was not an AR-15, but a Sig Sauer MCX rifle. 
  
 While aesthetically similar to and just as lethal as an AR-15, the MCX is internally a different beast, thus all but removing it from the AR-15 family of rifles. Yet while the weapon is different, the MCX and the AR-15 share the same design purpose: providing a highly portable, customizable, easy to operate and accurate rifle for the individual who possesses it. 
  
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 As Bob Owens from the blog “Bearing Arms” points out, the MCX is a modular rifle designed to be able to change between a variety of calibers and “otherwise has no major parts that interface with AR-15s in any way, shape or form.” 
  
 Originally designed for U.S. Special Operations forces, the MCX was built from the “ground up” to be lightweight and short, and it accepts “a broad array of accessories, enabling you to build a complete weapon system for any scenario or environment,” Sig Sauer’s website says. 
  
 While able to shoot the same caliber ammunition — .223 — as an AR-15, the MCX was initially meant to fire a round called a .300 Blackout. The relatively new caliber, according to Owens, was designed to provide Special Operations Command with a bullet that was as quiet as a pistol round but packed the range and lethality of a rifle cartridge. A side effect of the bullet’s design is that the it mimics the size of the round fired by AK-47-type rifles. 
  
 The key difference, however, between the standard AR-15 series of rifles and the MCX is the operating system used to mechanically propel the bullet from the gun and cycle the next round to be fired. The initial AR-15 (AR standing for Armalite Rifle), designed by Eugene Stoner in the late 1950s, used a system called “direct impingement.” Most modern AR-15-type rifles use this system. 
  
 Direct impingement means that when a round is fired, the gas generated from the fired bullet is shot through a hole in the barrel and is then channeled back through a tube that leads directly to the weapon’s bolt assembly. The gas, proceeding back to the rear of the rifle, moves the bolt assembly to the rear, subsequently ejecting the spent shell casing. A spring in the stock of the weapon then propels the bolt assembly forward again, inserting another bullet from the magazine into the rifle’s chamber, thus restarting the whole process. 
  
 The MCX, however, is known as a “piston gun,” meaning it uses gas piston technology to operate the internals of the rifle. When the rifle is fired, instead of the excess gas going into a small tube that is directed to the bolt assembly, the gas is pushed into a cylinder that is connected to a piston. The gas in the cylinder then propels the piston, which then cycles the bolt much like the impingement system. Mikhail Kalashnikov’s AK-47 series of rifles also uses a gas piston system. 
  
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 After the attack in Orlando Sunday, and others that have taken place in the recent past, it seems we hear the terms “assault weapon” and “assault rifle” quite a bit. 
  
 Some would argue that with nearly 50 people killed in Orlando, the names of the weapons don’t matter and are simply a difference without a distinction. But when it comes to the two (separate) types of weapons, there is a great deal of difference. 
  
 So what is an assault weapon, how does it work and how is it different than an assault rifle? Here’s a quick look. 
  
 What is an assault weapon? 
  
 An assault weapon is a rapid-fire, magazine-fed rifle designed for military use. It is a shoulder-fired weapon that allows the shooter to select between semiautomatic (requiring you pull the trigger for each shot), fully automatic (hold the trigger and the gun continuously fires) or three-shot-burst mode. 
  
 What is an "assault rifle?" 
  
 Technically, there is no such thing. What’s called an assault rifle in reports on gun violence is actually a semi-automatic rifle that looks similar to the assault weapons used by the military. An AR-15 rifle, like one that has been used in some mass shootings, is an example of this type of weapon. According to law enforcement authorities, the shooter in Sunday's attack used a Sig Sauer MCX. 
  
 What’s the difference between a semi-automatic and an automatic weapon? 
  
 An automatic weapon (assault weapon) can shoot more than one round when you pull the trigger. A semi-automatic weapon (“assault rifle”) does not. 
  
 Automatic weapons have not been used in recent mass shootings. In the shootings in Orlando, New Town, Ct., and San Bernardino, semi-automatic weapons, one requiring you to pull the trigger each time to fire a cartridge, were the weapons used. 
  
 The weapon used in some of those shootings was an AR-15. Doesn’t “AR” stand for “automatic rifle”? 
  
 No, “AR” in the gun’s name stands for ArmaLite Rifle. That is the company that first developed the weapon nearly 60 years ago. The company sold the rights to the firearm to the Colt company which, in turn, modified the rifle and sold it to the military as the M-16. The M-16 is an automatic weapon – hold the trigger and multiple rounds can be fired. The AR-15, as does the Sig Sauer, requires that you pull the trigger to fire each cartridge. 
  
 If it is not an automatic weapon, how does a shooter fire so many shots? 
  
 Semi-automatic rifles can accommodate high-capacity magazines – compartments that hold cartridges. That allows the shooter to fire off tens of rounds in a short period of time. A Sig Sauer and an AR-15 magazine generally holds 20- 30 rounds. There are magazines that can hold more. 
  
 How tough is it to get a semi-automatic weapon? 
  
 In most cases, it’s no tougher to get a semi-automatic rifle than it is getting a handgun. Seven states -- California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York – along with the District of Columbia have enacted laws banning semi-automatic weapons. Minnesota and Virginia regulate semi-automatic weapons. There is no ban on purchasing the weapons in any other state. 
  
 In Florida, you do not need a license to own or purchase a handgun, shotgun or rifle, nor do you have to register a gun. To purchase a gun from a gun store, you must pay $8 and complete the paperwork for a background check. If you pass the background check, you get the gun. If the gun is a rifle or a shotgun you do not have to wait three days to get it. For a handgun, there is a mandatory 3-day “cooling off” period in Florida – one of only 10 states that require any waiting period for the purchase of a gun. There is no federal waiting period required when purchasing a gun. Waiting periods are imposed by states. 
  
 Can I buy an automatic weapon? 
  
 Here’s where you need to understand the difference between automatic and semi-automatic. Semi-automatic weapons are relatively easy to purchase. However, the only automatic weapons legal to purchase for civilians in the United States are the ones that have been registered between 1934 and 1986. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, an “assault rifle” (or automatic weapon) is a machine gun. No new machine guns can be made or sold to civilians. Automatic weapons have been heavily regulated since the National Firearms Act of 1934. Taking possession of such weapons requires paying a $200 federal transfer tax, filling out an application to register the weapon, submitting passport photos, getting your chief law enforcement official to sign your application, and submitting to an FBI background and fingerprint check. Those weapons are hard to come by and generally pretty expensive. You do not want to violate the Firearms Act. If you do, expect to sit in prison for 10 years as you figure out how to pay the $100,000 fine. 
  
 Sources: The NRA; smartgunlaws.org; The FBI; The Wall Street Journal 
  
 © 2016 Cox Media Group. ||||| Omar Mateen, the Orlando shooter, used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol to kill 49 people at the Pulse nightclub Sunday. The same style of rifle was also used by the shooters at San Bernardino, California; Umpqua Community College in Oregon; Sandy Hook and several other mass shootings in recent years. On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton described the rifle as a “weapon of war” that should be banned, and President Obama concurred. But an effective ban could be difficult to devise. 
  
 The AR-15 used to be illegal. President Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban, which was in effect from 1994 to 2004, banned the AR-15 and other guns that were too similar to military-style weapons. However, this law did not prohibit Americans from owning semi-automatic weapons; it capped how many military features an individual gun could have. During the ban, a semi-automatic rifle like the AR-15 could legally have any one of the following features, as long as it didn’t have two or more of them: a folding stock (making the gun slightly easier to conceal), a pistol grip (making the weapon easier to hold and use), a bayonet mount, a flash suppressor (making it harder to see where shots are coming from), or a grenade launcher. 
  
 A 2004 report commissioned by the Department of Justice on the effects of the assault weapons ban concluded that the law was largely ineffective at limiting access to weapons with the power of the AR-15. According to the report, the ban focused on “features that have little to do with the weapons’ operation, and removing those features is sufficient to make the weapons legal.” The report noted that several semi-automatic rifles were functionally equivalent to the AR-15 and untouched by the ban. It’s hard to know whether Mateen’s AR-15-style weapon would have been covered by the old ban, though some versions of the Sig Sauer MCX rifle he used are sold with more than one of the components that were limited by the law. Depending on how many military-style features the rifle had when he bought it, it might have been legal under the assault weapons ban. And he would have been able to modify the gun himself, even under the old law. 
  
 The review for the DOJ concluded that bans on specific models or features of assault weapons had little to no discernible impact on gun deaths. If the law had any effect, the report said, it was most likely the result of bans on large-capacity magazines, which contain 10 or more rounds. (Large magazines allow shooters to keep firing without pausing to reload, a point at which their targets could run or fight back.) Calculations based on homicide reports in Jersey City, New Jersey, suggested that restricting large-capacity magazines might lower the number of gunshot victims by up to 5 percent. However, there are a huge number of high-capacity magazines already in circulation. The report authors concluded that a ban on them probably wouldn’t make it hard to keep a determined shooter from legally buying a pre-ban magazine and pairing it with an AR-15 equivalent. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| ORLANDO, Fla. -- It took us 38 minutes to walk out of a gun shop with a death machine. 
  
 Just two days after Omar Mateen used a semi-automatic rifle to murder 49 innocent people and injure dozens more, we were able to purchase an AR-15 -- a rifle similar to Mateen’s that has been used in several other mass shootings on American soil -- in less time than it takes to buy a cart full of groceries. 
  
 We would have been locked and loaded within five minutes, but the gun shop employee we spoke to said the queue on background checks was longer than usual because people were scrambling to buy AR-15s in the wake of the shooting. That’s both terrifying and unsurprising -- gun sales often skyrocket after mass shootings. 
  
 But the ease with which we purchased our AR-15, a Vietnam-era gun hailed by the military as being the perfect killing machine, was surreal. This, despite the fact that Florida Gov. Rick Scott had declared a state of emergency in Orange County, which includes Orlando. 
  
 On any given day, regardless of whether your town has endured a horrific tragedy, it’s not hard to purchase a weapon of mass murder like we did in most of America. A reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News was able to get one in just seven minutes in Pennsylvania on Monday. 
  
 Within seconds, we had it in our hands: A rifle that weighs less than a small watermelon and can, like the MCX Sig Sauer that Mateen used, easily fire several dozen rounds in less than 10 seconds. Our Diamondback DB15's killing power is striking, and at $644, it’s a relatively affordable murder weapon. 
  
 Huffington Post HuffPost's Andy Campbell gets the feel of the Diamondback DB15. 
  
 Gun shop employees were happy to discuss lethality. When another customer looking to purchase a small, .22-caliber handgun noted that it wouldn’t fare well against a “6-foot-3, 350 pound man,” the employee agreed. 
  
 “You’d have to hit him in the neck or the heart,” said the employee, whom we aren’t naming for this story. 
  
 He went on to joke with the customer that he should either pick a bigger gun or use the .22 to “shoot him in the stomach 15 times, that’d really piss him off.” 
  
 Behind him, the TV blared Fox News coverage of the massacre at Pulse nightclub, located nearby. On the wall, a framed photo of President Barack Obama with the caption, “Firearm Salesman Of The Year,” hung next to an array of other long rifles, some of them higher caliber than the AR-15, and some of them more affordable, too. 
  
 Semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15 have been used in several of the most deadly shooting rampages in the United States in recent years, even before the attack in Orlando. The killers behind the mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, the elementary school at Newtown, Connecticut, and the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, all used AR-15s. 
  
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 They’re not the cheapest rifles around -- another, higher-caliber carbine hung on the wall at our shop for half the price. But the National Rifle Association calls the AR-15 the most popular weapon in the U.S. "It is customizable, adaptable, reliable and accurate," the organization says on its blog. 
  
 Shop workers told us we’d have to wait if we wanted to buy a smaller gun. There’s a three-day waiting period for handgun purchases in Florida, but that rule does not apply to rifles. 
  
 The employee made some small talk, declaring that all guns fall under one of three classifications: Leisure, defense and hunting. We aren’t sure which category Mateen’s gun falls under. 
  
 Under any of the gun shop employee’s definitions, there seems no reason for a weapon that can fire 10 or more bullets in quick succession. The AR-15 and its close cousins are not made to hunt deer. They’re made to kill people. 
  
 All it took to attain one was a driver’s license (the one we used was from out of state) and a few minutes to wait for the background check to clear. We signed state-issued proof of sale documents that asked whether we were felons or drug addicts, and where we lived. 
  
 Waiting for the background check was the hardest part -- and that only involved a few minutes of idle time. We requested data from the state Department of Law Enforcement on the current volume of background checks for similar guns, but did not get an immediate response. The department has been overwhelmed by public records requests since the shooting, a spokeswoman said. 
  
 Nothing that we or the store employees did was illegal or unusual. You can buy semi-automatic rifles at several stores in the Orlando area. 
  
  
  
 As of this writing, we have the same firepower that Mateen had when he opened fire at one of Orlando’s most famous gay clubs. We don’t have any ammunition, though -- the shop ran out of .223-caliber rounds. 
  
 We plan to return the gun. Eventually, it will join countless other rifles of its kind on the legal, Great American gun market. 
  
 UPDATE: 6/15 -- We attempted to return the AR-15 to the shop where we purchased it. Despite having a return policy, they refused. So we opted to turn the gun over to Orlando police, who said they would have it destroyed. ||||| ON JUNE 12th Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 with a 9mm handgun and a semi-automatic gun called the Sig Sauer MCX, an AR-15-style rifle trumpeted by its manufacturer as “the first true mission-adaptable weapon system” which “eclipses everything that came before it”. Despite having been under FBI investigation in 2013 and 2014, Mr Mateen faced no obstacles when buying these weapons in the days before he walked into Pulse, a gay nightclub, in Orlando, Florida, and sprayed revellers with bullets. Many commentators are wondering anew why such a dangerous weapon is freely available for civilian purchase. The AR-15 has been the gun of choice in several other recent mass shootings, including the killing of 14 people attending a holiday party last December in San Bernardino, California; the murder of 12 in a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado in 2012; and, later that year, the slaughter of 26 children and staff members at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. 
  
 The National Rifle Association (NRA) muses that the “AR” could stand for “America’s rifle”, as the AR-15 is the nation’s most popular long gun, with as many as 10m units in circulation. People gravitate to the AR-15 for hunting, sport shooting and self-defence, the NRA says, because “it is customisable, adaptable, reliable and accurate” as well as lightweight and easy to modify. Whereas its fully-automatic military cousin, the M16, shares its looks, the AR-15 shoots only one round per trigger-pull. It is thus a misnomer, gun-rights advocates say, to call the AR-15 a military-style “assault rifle”, a term that has been in use since Nazi Germany introduced the Sturmgewehr in 1944 (which in turn inspired the Soviet AK-47). Unlike fully automatic rifles, which can fire 750 to 900 rounds per minute and are available only to the armed forces, the AR-15 and its kin (sold by the millions to the general public) can muster only about 45 to 60. But as the Orlando tragedy showed, this circumscribed capacity can still be highly lethal. 
  
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 Gun-control advocates began using the term “assault weapons” to refer to semi-automatic firearms like the AR-15 in the 1980s. In the wake of a school shooting in Stockton, California, the first President Bush approved a measure to prohibit importing such guns in 1989. In 1994, Bill Clinton signed the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, a law restricting the manufacture of large-capacity magazines and a large range of semi-automatic firearms. But due to a ten-year sunset provision, the ban was lifted in 2004 and efforts to reinstate it—along with attempts to pass other gun-control measures—have failed. Gun-rights advocates complain that the “assault” moniker is meaningless. It is used by gun-shy activists, a National Review article says, as “a sharp and effective tool with which the enemies of the right to keep and bear arms have sought to sow confusion, fear and ignorance”. The guns falling under the “assault” umbrella are “a set of quotidian weapons that have never posed much of a problem to anybody”. 
  
 After another mass shooting in which an AR-15 most certainly posed a problem to many people trapped inside a nightclub, such a blasé approach to powerful civilian weapons may be harder to maintain. Ludwig Wittgenstein, a great 20th-century philosopher and a veteran of the first world war, wrote in his “Philosophical Investigations” that when “we employ the word ‘meaning’,’’ we are most often referring to the everyday purpose of some phrase. “The meaning of a word”, he wrote, “is its use in the language”. By that sensible if trivial standard: if an AR-15 can be used to assault large crowds of people, killing and maiming scores of them, on multiple occasions, it qualifies as an assault weapon. ||||| Editor’s note: This story focused on the AR-15 rifle, which was the weapon used in several recent mass shootings. Orlando law enforcement officials initially said this was the same gun type used in the Pulse nightclub shooting, but later clarified that the Orlando shooter was using a Sig Sauer MCX. The Sig Sauer MCX is a rifle with several similarities to the AR 15-style and was originally designed for use by U.S. special operation forces. The NewsHour regrets the confusion.​ 
  
 GWEN IFILL: The weapon used in the Orlando shootings is at once one of the most popular and most reviled weapons in America, the AR-15, the civilian version of the U.S. military’s standard issue rifle. 
  
 John Yang has a closer look. 
  
 JOHN YANG: The NRA says it’s America’s most popular rifle, used legally and safely by millions of people. A lawyer for victims’ families says it’s the gold standard for mass murder of innocent civilians. 
  
 The AR-15 has been used in some of the nation’s worst mass shootings, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, an Oregon community college, and now an Orlando gay club. 
  
 To learn more about the rifle, its popularity among gun enthusiasts and its place in American culture, we went to a Northern Virginia gun range to speak with former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Phillip Carter, himself a gun owner, who knows the AR-15 well from his service as an Army officer. 
  
 Why is this weapon so popular? 
  
 PHILLIP CARTER, Former Defense Department Official: So, the AR-15 is America’s rifle because it’s what America’s military carries. 
  
 It’s modeled on the M-16 that’s been carried by America’s Army and America’s Marine Corps and the rest of our services since Vietnam. Today, roughly 20,000 troops carry a similar rifle in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even those who don’t serve feel that they’re part of that effort when they carry the AR-15. 
  
 JOHN YANG: I have read that the recoil is a bit gentler than some other rifles. 
  
 PHILIP CARTER: So, the recoil on the M-16 or the AR-15 is designed to be light, so that you can keep it on target and continue to shoot bullet after bullet after bullet. It’s by design. 
  
 There’s a massive spring here in the stock that absorbs quite a bit of the recoil. There’s also, by design, a gas system that takes a lot of the gas from the firing of each bullet, and it evaporates it, so that when each bullet is fired, that gas and that recoil isn’t coming back on the shoulder each time, but it’s actually in the rifle in a more constructive manner. 
  
 JOHN YANG: And that feature would also allow a shooter to keep steady. 
  
 PHILIP CARTER: It’s a military rifle. It’s designed to deliver masses of bullets to a very specific target over time. This is a weapon designed to kill in mass quantities. It’s a military weapon. 
  
 JOHN YANG: So this is essentially a civilian version, you said, of the M-4 or the M-16. 
  
 PHILIP CARTER: Yes. This is very much like a civilian version of a Humvee or a civilian version of some other type of military gear. There are some modifications to this that have been made to make it a civilian variant. 
  
 What’s different on the civilian versions is, it only allows semiautomatic fire. So you flip this to fire, and it allows you to shoot one shot at a time. The military versions would allow you to switch to semiautomatic and then, once more, either for three-round bursts or for fully automatic, if you’re shooting an older variant of the M-16. 
  
 JOHN YANG: Fully automatic, meaning? 
  
 PHILIP CARTER: You squeeze the trigger, and the weapon keeps firing until the magazine runs dry. Your ability to put bullets down-range with this weapon is limited mostly by your ability to reload it. 
  
 And the magazine for this rifle looks like this. This is a 30-round magazine that carries 30 bullets of the 5.56-millimeter variety. And it goes into the magazine well right here. It’s very easy to reload. It’s very easy to get more ammunition in there and continue to shoot at your target. 
  
 The ammunition for the M-16 or the AR-15 is a 5.56-millimeter bullet. It’s a very small and very fast bullet that does a lot of tissue damage when it hits a person. So just the tip here is the bullet. It’s roughly the size of your pinkie tip. But it’s propelled forward by a massive cartridge of powder that shoots this at a very high velocity, creating a bullet that can punch through targets, whether they’re human or otherwise, with a great deal of lethality and power. 
  
 The other thing about this bullet is, because it’s so small and moves so fast, it tends to tumble or become volatile when it hits a person, and so it tends to create a very wound and very difficult-to-treat wounds. Again, it’s a military weapon. It’s not designed for hunting, where you might want to preserve the meat so that you can eat it. It’s designed to wound or kill soldiers in combat. 
  
 JOHN YANG: There are hundreds of companies in the United States that make verges of the AR-15. The NRA says the weapon can be used not only for hunting, but for sports shooting and self-defense. 
  
 For the “PBS NewsHour,” I’m John Yang. |||||
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– The Orlando shooting has raised anew the issue of the powerful weapons used by gunmen in mass shootings. While police initially said Omar Mateen used an "AR-15-type assault rifle," they have since clarified that he used a Sig Sauer MCX rifle. A look at some of the coverage: The Washington Post looks at those two weapons and finds that they're similar in broad terms: "a highly portable, customizable, easy to operate and accurate rifle." But one big difference is in the mechanics of how the bullet is propelled and the next round readied. It's "direct impingement" vs. "piston gun," as the Post explains here. The Sig Sauer can use magazines common to other semiautomatics, "but otherwise has no major parts that interface with AR-15s in any way, shape or form," says the Bearing Arms blog. (The post bashes media ignorance on the subject.) The Economist digs into the controversy over use of the term "assault rifle," which gun-rights advocates say is inaccurate because a gun such as the AR-15 "shoots only one round per trigger-pull." Orlando station WFTV offers a primer on topics such as the difference between semi-automatic and automatic weapons. (The AR-15 and the Sig Sauer are in the first camp; the military's M16 is in the latter.) PBS NewsHour did a segment on the AR-15 here. A Philadelphia Daily News columnist explains how she bought an AR-15 in seven minutes. Two Huffington Post writers got it done in 38 minutes. A New York Daily News writer fires an AR-15 for himself. He's "mostly terrified" as a result. Though he's taking flak for saying he got a temporary case of PTSD. FiveThirtyEight looks into the complicated topic of how such weapons are covered under gun laws.
Här är en nyhetsartikel: Här är vad du behöver veta om de vapen som vissa kallar "guldstandarden för massmord", efter Orlando skytten Omar Mateen använde sig av överfallsliknande gevär Sig Sauer MCX för att döda minst 49 personer. (Redaktörens anmärkning: Denna video har uppdaterats med mer specifik information.) (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post) I timmarna efter söndagens massskjutning på en Orlando nattklubb, Chief John Mina från Orlando polisen sade revolvermannens vapen inkluderade en pistol och en “AR-15-typ misshandel gevär.” På måndag kväll, tjänstemän klargjorde att geväret Omar Mateen används i skottlossningen var inte en AR-15, men en Sig Sauer MCX gevär. Medan den estetiskt liknar och är lika dödlig som en AR-15, är MCX en annan best, alltså allt utom att ta bort den från AR-15-familjen av gevär. Men även om vapnet är annorlunda, har MCX och AR-15 samma designsyfte: att tillhandahålla ett mycket portabelt, anpassningsbart, lätt att använda och exakt gevär för den person som har det. [En lagstiftare planerar att ge bort misshandel gevär som insamling priser dagar efter Orlando] Som Bob Owens från bloggen “Bearing Arms” påpekar, MCX är en modulär gevär som är utformad för att kunna ändras mellan en mängd olika kalibrar och “annars har inga större delar som gränssnitt mot AR-15s på något sätt, form eller form.” Ursprungligen utformad för amerikanska specialoperationer styrkor, MCX byggdes från “grund upp” för att vara lätt och kort, och det accepterar “en bred uppsättning tillbehör, så att du kan bygga ett komplett vapensystem för alla scenarion eller miljöer,” Sig Sauer webbplats säger. Samtidigt som MCX kunde skjuta samma kaliberammunition – .223 – som en AR-15, var det till en början meningen att MCX skulle avfyra en runda kallad en .300 Blackout. Den relativt nya kalibern, enligt Owens, var avsedd att förse Special Operations Command med en kula som var lika tyst som en pistolrunda men packade räckvidden och dödligheten hos en gevärspatron. En bieffekt av kulans utformning är att den efterliknar storleken på den runda som avfyras av gevär av AK-47-typ. Den viktigaste skillnaden är dock mellan standardserien AR-15 av gevär och MCX är operativsystemet som används för att mekaniskt driva kulan från pistolen och cykla nästa omgång som ska avfyras. Den inledande AR-15 (AR står för Armalite Rifle), designad av Eugene Stoner i slutet av 1950-talet, använde ett system som kallas “direkt impingement.” De flesta moderna AR-15-typ gevär använder detta system. Direkt impingement innebär att när en runda avfyras, skjuts den gas som genereras från den avfyrade kulan genom ett hål i pipan och kanaliseras sedan tillbaka genom ett rör som leder direkt till vapnets bultmontering. Gasen, som går tillbaka till baksidan av geväret, flyttar bultenheten baktill och skjuter sedan ut det använda höljet. En fjäder i vapnets lager driver sedan bultmonteringen framåt igen och för in ytterligare en kula från magasinet i gevärets kammare, varigenom hela processen återstartas. MCX är dock känd som en "piston pistol", vilket innebär att den använder gaskolv teknik för att driva internerna i geväret. När geväret avfyras, i stället för att överskottsgasen går in i ett litet rör som är riktat till bultaggregatet, trycks gasen in i en cylinder som är ansluten till en kolv. Gasen i cylindern driver sedan kolven, som sedan cyklar skruven ungefär som impingementsystemet. Michail Kalasjnikovs AK-47-serie med gevär använder också ett gaskolvsystem. 1 av 25 Full Screen Autoplay Stäng Skip Ad × Hur undersökningen av Orlando massskjutning ser ut Visa Foton Tjänstemän söker platsen och andra i området för information om 12 juni massakern. Bildtext tjänstemän söker platsen och andra i området för information om 12 juni massakern. 15 juni 2016 Polisen samlas utanför nattklubben Pulse i Orlando under skjututredningen. David Goldman/AP Köp foto Vänta 1 sekund för att fortsätta. Läs mer: Shooter Omar Mateens far säger att han är ledsen över massakern, kallar Gunman ‘en god son’ Historien om AR-15 Detta är den militär-stil utrustning som används för att svara på attacken i Orlando Â° av: Debbie Lord, Cox Media Group National Content Desk Uppdaterad: juni 14, 2016 - 12:24 Efter attacken i Orlando söndag, och andra som har ägt rum i det senaste förflutna, verkar det som om vi hör termerna “assault vapen” och “assault gevär” ganska mycket. Vissa skulle hävda att med nästan 50 människor dödade i Orlando, namnen på vapnen spelar ingen roll och är helt enkelt en skillnad utan åtskillnad. Men när det gäller de två (separata) typerna av vapen finns det en hel del skillnader. Så vad är ett överfallsvapen, hur fungerar det och hur är det annorlunda än ett överfallsgevär? Här är en snabb titt. Vad är ett överfallsvapen? Ett överfallsvapen är ett snabbeldat, magasinsmatat gevär avsett för militärt bruk. Det är ett axeleldat vapen som gör att skytten kan välja mellan semiautomatisk (kräver att man trycker på avtryckaren för varje skott), helautomatisk (håll kvar avtryckaren och pistolen avfyras kontinuerligt) eller treskotts-burstläge. Vad är ett "misstagsgevär"? Tekniskt sett finns det inget sådant. Vad som kallas för ett misshandelsgevär i rapporter om vapenvåld är egentligen ett halvautomatiskt gevär som liknar de misshandelsvapen som militären använder. Ett AR-15-gevär, liksom ett som har använts vid vissa masskjutningar, är ett exempel på denna typ av vapen. Enligt polisen använde skytten i söndags attack en Sig Sauer MCX. Vad är skillnaden mellan ett halvautomatiskt och ett automatvapen? Ett automatvapen (assault weapon) kan skjuta mer än en omgång när man trycker av. Ett halvautomatiskt vapen (’missilgevär’) gör inte det. Automatvapen har inte använts vid senare tids masskjutningar. I skottlossningarna i Orlando, New Town, Ct. och San Bernardino, halvautomatiska vapen, ett som krävde att man varje gång skulle trycka av en patron, användes vapnen. Vapnet som användes vid några av dessa skottlossningar var en AR-15. Står inte ”AR” för ”automatiskt gevär”? Nej, ”AR” i vapnets namn står för ArmaLite Rifle. Det var det företaget som utvecklade vapnet för nästan 60 år sedan. Företaget sålde rättigheterna till skjutvapen till Colt-kompaniet som i sin tur modifierade geväret och sålde det till militären som M-16. M-16 är ett automatvapen – håll i avtryckaren och flera skott kan avfyras. AR-15, liksom Sig Sauer, kräver att man trycker av för att avfyra varje patron. Om det inte är ett automatvapen, hur skjuter en skytt så många skott? Halvautomatiska gevär rymmer magasin med hög kapacitet – fack som rymmer patroner. Det gör att skytten kan avfyra tiotals rundor på kort tid. En Sig Sauer och en AR-15-tidning håller i allmänhet 20-30 omgångar. Det finns tidskrifter som kan hålla mer. Hur svårt är det att få ett halvautomatiskt vapen? I de flesta fall är det inte svårare att få ett halvautomatiskt gevär än det är att få en pistol. Sju delstater -- Kalifornien, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey och New York - tillsammans med District of Columbia har antagit lagar som förbjuder halvautomatiska vapen. Minnesota och Virginia reglerar halvautomatiska vapen. Det finns inget förbud mot att köpa vapnen i någon annan stat. I Florida behöver man inte licens för att äga eller köpa ett handeldvapen, hagelgevär eller gevär, och man behöver inte heller registrera en pistol. För att köpa en pistol från en vapenaffär måste man betala 8 dollar och fylla i pappersarbetet för en bakgrundskontroll. Om du klarar bakgrundskontrollen, får du pistolen. Om pistolen är ett gevär eller ett hagelgevär behöver man inte vänta i tre dagar för att få tag i den. För en pistol, det finns en obligatorisk 3-dagars “cooling off” period i Florida – en av bara 10 stater som kräver någon väntetid för köp av en pistol. Det krävs ingen federal väntetid när man köper en pistol. Vänteperioder utdöms av stater. Kan jag köpa ett automatvapen? Här är där du måste förstå skillnaden mellan automatisk och halvautomatisk. Halvautomatiska vapen är relativt lätta att köpa. De enda automatvapen som är lagliga att köpa för civila i USA är dock de som har registrerats mellan 1934 och 1986. Enligt Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, är ett ”arselgevär” (eller automatvapen) en kulspruta. Inga nya kulsprutor kan tillverkas eller säljas till civila. Automatvapen har varit hårt reglerat sedan den nationella eldvapenlagen från 1934. Att ta i besittning sådana vapen kräver att betala en $ 200 federal överföring skatt, fylla i en ansökan om att registrera vapnet, skicka passfoton, få din chef brottsbekämpande tjänsteman att underteckna din ansökan, och lämna in till en FBI bakgrund och fingeravtryckskontroll. Vapnen är svåra att få tag på och i allmänhet ganska dyra. Du vill inte bryta mot vapenlagen. Om du gör det, vänta dig att sitta i fängelse i 10 år när du kommer på hur du ska betala böterna för 100 000 dollar. Källor: The NRA; smartgunlaws.org; The FBI; The Wall Street Journal © 2016 Cox Media Group. Omar Mateen, Orlando-skytten, använde ett halvautomatiskt gevär i AR-15-stil och en 9 mm halvautomatisk pistol för att döda 49 personer på nattklubben Pulse Sunday. Samma typ av gevär användes även av skyttarna vid San Bernardino, Kalifornien; Umpqua Community College i Oregon; Sandy Hook och flera andra masskjutningar under senare år. På måndagen beskrev demokraternas presidentkandidat Hillary Clinton geväret som ett "krigsvapen" som borde förbjudas, och president Obama instämde. Men ett effektivt förbud kan vara svårt att komma fram till. AR-15 var förr olagligt. President Bill Clintons anfallsvapenförbud, som gällde från 1994 till 2004, förbjöd AR-15 och andra kanoner som var för lika vapen i militär stil. Denna lag förbjöd dock inte amerikaner från att äga halvautomatiska vapen; den begränsade hur många militära funktioner en enskild pistol kunde ha. Under förbudet kunde ett halvautomatiskt gevär som AR-15 juridiskt sett ha någon av följande funktioner, så länge det inte hade två eller flera av dem: ett fällbart lager (gör pistolen något lättare att dölja), ett pistolgrepp (gör vapnet lättare att hålla och använda), ett bajonettfäste, en blixtdämpare (gör det svårare att se varifrån skott kommer), eller en granatkastare. I en rapport från 2004 på uppdrag av justitiedepartementet om effekterna av misshandelsvapenförbudet drogs slutsatsen att lagen i stort sett var ineffektiv vid begränsning av tillgången till vapen med AR-15:s makt. Enligt rapporten fokuserade förbudet på “funktioner som har lite att göra med vapnens operation, och att ta bort dessa funktioner är tillräckligt för att göra vapnen lagliga.” Rapporten konstaterade att flera halvautomatiska gevär funktionellt motsvarade AR-15 och orörd av förbudet. Det är svårt att veta om Mateens vapen i AR-15-stil skulle ha omfattats av det gamla förbudet, även om vissa versioner av Sig Sauer MCX-geväret han använde säljs med mer än en av de komponenter som var begränsade av lagen. Beroende på hur många militära funktioner geväret hade när han köpte det, kan det ha varit lagligt under misshandel vapenförbud. Och han skulle själv ha kunnat modifiera vapnet, även enligt den gamla lagen. Granskningen av justitiedepartementets rapport visade att förbud mot specifika modeller eller egenskaper hos överfallsvapen hade liten eller ingen märkbar inverkan på döda vapen. Om lagen hade någon verkan, sade rapporten, var det med största sannolikhet resultatet av förbud mot storkapacitetsmagasin, som innehåller 10 eller fler omgångar. (Stora magasin tillåter skyttar att fortsätta skjuta utan paus för att ladda om, en punkt där deras mål kunde springa eller slå tillbaka.) Beräkningar baserade på mordrapporter i Jersey City, New Jersey, tyder på att begränsa storkapacitet tidskrifter kan minska antalet skottoffer med upp till 5 procent. Det finns dock ett stort antal tidskrifter med hög kapacitet som redan är i omlopp. Rapporten författare drog slutsatsen att ett förbud mot dem förmodligen inte skulle göra det svårt att hålla en bestämd skytt från att lagligt köpa en förbannelsetidning och para ihop den med en AR-15 motsvarighet. Dessa crawls är en del av ett försök att arkivera sidor som de skapas och arkivera de sidor som de hänvisar till. På så sätt, när de sidor som refereras ändras eller tas från webben, kommer en länk till den version som levde när sidan skrevs att bevaras.Då hoppas Internetarkivet att referenser till dessa arkiverade sidor kommer att sättas i stället för en länk som annars skulle brytas, eller en följeslagare länk för att låta människor se vad som ursprungligen var tänkt av en sidas författare.Målet är att fixa alla trasiga länkar på webben. Krypningar av stödda "Inga fler 404" platser. Det tog oss 38 minuter att gå ut från en vapenaffär med en dödsmaskin. Bara två dagar efter att Omar Mateen använde ett halvautomatiskt gevär för att mörda 49 oskyldiga människor och skada dussintals fler, kunde vi köpa ett AR-15 -- ett gevär liknande Mateens som har använts vid flera andra massskjutningar på amerikansk mark -- på mindre tid än det tar att köpa en vagn full med livsmedel. Vi skulle ha blivit låsta och laddade inom fem minuter, men vapenaffärsanställde vi pratade med sade att kön på bakgrundskontroller var längre än vanligt eftersom folk trängde sig på att köpa AR-15:or i kölvattnet av skottlossningen. Det är både skrämmande och föga förvånande -- vapen försäljning ofta skjuta i höjden efter massa skott. Men lättheten med vilken vi köpte vår AR-15, en Vietnam-era pistol hyllad av militären som den perfekta mördarmaskinen, var surrealistisk. Detta, trots att Florida Gov. Rick Scott hade utlyst undantagstillstånd i Orange County, vilket inkluderar Orlando. Oavsett om din stad har uthärdat en fruktansvärd tragedi, är det inte svårt att köpa ett massmordsvapen som vi gjorde i större delen av Amerika. En reporter för Philadelphia Daily News kunde få en på bara sju minuter i Pennsylvania på måndag. Inom några sekunder hade vi det i våra händer: Ett gevär som väger mindre än en liten vattenmelon och kan, likt MCX Sig Sauer som Mateen använde, lätt avfyra flera dussin skott på mindre än 10 sekunder. Vår Diamondback DB15 dödande makt är slående, och på $ 644 är det ett relativt överkomligt mordvapen. Huffington Post HuffPosts Andy Campbell får känslan av Diamondback DB15. De anställda i vapenbutiken diskuterade gärna dödsfall. När en annan kund som vill köpa en liten, .22-kalibers handvapen noterade att det inte skulle gå bra mot en "6 fot-3, 350 pund man," den anställde överens. — Du skulle behöva slå honom i nacken eller hjärtat, sade den anställde, som vi inte namnge för den här historien. Han gick vidare till skämt med kunden att han antingen bör välja en större pistol eller använda .22 för att “skjuta honom i magen 15 gånger, det skulle verkligen pissa honom.” Bakom honom, TV blared Fox News täckning av massakern på Pulse nattklubb, ligger i närheten. På väggen, ett inramat foto av president Barack Obama med bildtexten, "Firearm Salesman Of The Year", hängde bredvid en rad andra långa gevär, några av dem högre kaliber än AR-15, och några av dem mer prisvärd, också. Halvautomatiska gevär som AR-15 har använts i flera av de dödligaste skjutramperna i USA under senare år, även före attacken i Orlando. Mördarna bakom masskjutningarna i San Bernardino i Kalifornien, grundskolan på Newtown i Connecticut och biografen i Aurora i Colorado använde alla AR-15:or. Huffington Post Andy Campbell / Huffington Post De är inte de billigaste gevären runt -- en annan, högre kaliber karbin hängde på väggen i vår butik för halva priset. Men National Rifle Association kallar AR-15 det mest populära vapnet i USA "Det är anpassningsbart, anpassningsbart, pålitligt och korrekt", säger organisationen på sin blogg. Butiksarbetare sade att vi måste vänta om vi ville köpa en mindre pistol. Det finns en tre dagars väntetid för handvapen inköp i Florida, men den regeln gäller inte för gevär. Den anställde småpratade lite och förklarade att alla vapen faller under en av tre klassifikationer: Fritid, försvar och jakt. Vi är inte säkra på vilken kategori Mateens pistol faller under. Under någon av vapenaffärsmedarbetarens definitioner verkar det inte finnas någon anledning till ett vapen som kan avfyra 10 eller fler kulor i snabb följd. AR-15 och dess nära kusiner är inte gjorda för att jaga rådjur. De är gjorda för att döda människor. Allt som krävdes för att uppnå en var ett körkort (det vi använde var från utanför staten) och några minuter för att vänta på att bakgrundskontrollen skulle klarna. Vi skrev på bevis på försäljning som frågade om vi var brottslingar eller drogmissbrukare och var vi bodde. Att vänta på bakgrundskontrollen var den svåraste delen -- och det gällde bara några minuter av sysslolös tid. Vi begärde uppgifter från det statliga polisdepartementet om den nuvarande volymen av bakgrundskontroller för liknande vapen, men fick inget omedelbart svar. Departementet har blivit överväldigat av offentliga register efter skottlossningen, sade en taleskvinna. Inget som vi eller de anställda gjorde var olagligt eller ovanligt. Du kan köpa halvautomatiska gevär i flera butiker i Orlando-området. Från och med denna skrift har vi samma eldkraft som Mateen hade när han öppnade eld på en av Orlandos mest kända gayklubbar. Vi har dock ingen ammunition - butiken tog slut på .223-kalibers rundor. Vi tänker lämna tillbaka pistolen. Så småningom kommer den att ansluta sig till otaliga andra gevär av sitt slag på den lagliga, stora amerikanska vapenmarknaden. UPPDATERING: 6/15 -- Vi försökte återföra AR-15 till butiken där vi köpte den. Trots att de hade en returpolicy vägrade de. Så vi valde att överlämna pistolen till Orlando polisen, som sa att de skulle få den förstörd. Den 12:e juni dödade Omar Mateen 49 personer och skadade 53 med en 9 mm pistol och en halvautomatisk pistol kallad Sig Sauer MCX, ett AR-15-liknande gevär som trumpetades av tillverkaren som ”det första riktiga missionsanpassade vapensystemet” som ”förvränger allt som kom före det”. Trots att ha varit under FBI-utredning 2013 och 2014 mötte Mr Mateen inga hinder när han köpte dessa vapen dagarna innan han gick in på Pulse, en gay nattklubb, i Orlando, Florida, och sprutade revellers med kulor. Många kommentatorer undrar på nytt varför ett sådant farligt vapen är fritt tillgängligt för civila inköp. AR-15 har varit valfritt vapen i flera andra senaste massskjutningar, inklusive dödandet av 14 personer som närvarade vid en semesterfest i december i San Bernardino, Kalifornien, mordet på 12 på en filmteater i Aurora, Colorado 2012 och, senare samma år, slakten av 26 barn och anställda på en grundskola i Newtown, Connecticut. National Rifle Association (NRA) muses att “AR” skulle kunna stå för “Amerikas gevär”, eftersom AR-15 är nationens mest populära lång pistol, med så många som 10m enheter i omlopp. Människor dras till AR-15 för jakt, sportskytte och självförsvar, säger NRA, eftersom “det är anpassningsbar, anpassningsbar, tillförlitlig och korrekt” samt lätt och lätt att ändra. Medan dess helautomatiska militärkusin, M16, delar sitt utseende, skjuter AR-15 endast en runda per avtryckarpull. Det är alltså en felaktig benämning, vapenrättsförespråkare säger, att kalla AR-15 för ett militärliknande "assaultgevär", en term som har använts sedan Nazityskland införde Sturmgewehr 1944 (vilket i sin tur inspirerade det sovjetiska AK-47). Till skillnad från helautomatiska gevär, som kan avfyra 750 till 900 rundor per minut och endast är tillgängliga för försvarsmakten, kan AR-15 och dess anhöriga (sålda av miljonerna till allmänheten) uppbåda endast omkring 45 till 60. Men som tragedin i Orlando visade kan denna begränsade kapacitet fortfarande vara mycket dödlig. Få vårt dagliga nyhetsbrev Uppgradera din inkorg och få våra dagliga utskick och redaktörsval. Gun-control förespråkare började använda termen "assault beväpning" för att hänvisa till halvautomatiska skjutvapen som AR-15 under 1980-talet. I kölvattnet av en skolskjutning i Stockton i Kalifornien godkände den förste presidenten Bush en åtgärd för att förbjuda import av sådana vapen 1989. 1994 undertecknade Bill Clinton det federala Assault Weapon Ban, en lag som begränsar tillverkningen av tidskrifter med stor kapacitet och ett stort utbud av halvautomatiska skjutvapen. Men på grund av en tioårig solnedgångsbestämmelse upphävdes förbudet 2004 och ansträngningarna att återinföra det – tillsammans med försök att klara andra vapenkontrollåtgärder – har misslyckats. Gun-rights förespråkare klagar över att "misstaget" moniker är meningslöst. Den används av vapenhysande aktivister, säger en artikel i National Review, som “ett skarpt och effektivt verktyg med vilket fienderna till rätten att hålla och bära vapen har sökt så förvirring, rädsla och okunnighet”. De vapen som faller under ”misshandelsparaplyet” är ”en uppsättning quotidianvapen som aldrig har inneburit något större problem för någon”. Efter ytterligare en massskjutning där en AR-15 med all säkerhet utgjorde ett problem för många människor som satt fast på en nattklubb, kan en sådan blaséstrategi för kraftfulla civila vapen vara svårare att upprätthålla. Ludwig Wittgenstein, en stor 1900-talsfilosof och en veteran från första världskriget, skrev i sina "Philosophical Investigations" att när "vi använder ordet "mening", syftar vi oftast på det vardagliga syftet med någon fras. ”Ett ords betydelse”, skrev han, ”är dess användning i språket”. Med denna förnuftiga om triviala standard: om en AR-15 kan användas för att attackera stora folkmassor, döda och lemlästa massor av dem, vid flera tillfällen, det kvalificerar sig som ett överfallsvapen. ” Redaktörens anmärkning: Denna berättelse fokuserade på AR-15 geväret, som var det vapen som användes vid flera senaste masskjutningar. Orlando poliser sade inledningsvis att detta var samma vapentyp som användes i nattklubbsskjutningen Pulse, men klargjorde senare att Orlando skytten använde en Sig Sauer MCX. Sig Sauer MCX är ett gevär med flera likheter med AR 15-stilen och konstruerades ursprungligen för användning av amerikanska specialoperationsstyrkor. The NewsHour beklagar förvirringen. GWEN IFILL: Vapnet som används i Orlando skottlossningen är på en gång ett av de mest populära och mest skymfade vapnen i Amerika, AR-15, den civila versionen av USA:s militärs standardnummergevär. John Yang har en närmare titt. JOHN YANG: NRA säger att det är USA: s mest populära gevär, används lagligt och säkert av miljontals människor. En advokat för offrens familjer säger att det är guldmyntfoten för massmord på oskyldiga civila. AR-15 har använts i några av landets värsta masskjutningar, vid Sandy Hook Elementary School i Newtown, Connecticut, en biograf i Aurora, Colorado, en Oregon community college, och nu en Orlando gayklubb. För att lära oss mer om geväret, dess popularitet bland vapenentusiaster och dess plats i den amerikanska kulturen, åkte vi till en Northern Virginia pistolavstånd för att tala med tidigare biträdande försvarsminister Phillip Carter, själv en vapenägare, som känner AR-15 väl från sin tjänst som arméofficer. Varför är vapnet så populärt? PHILLIP CARTER, tidigare försvarsdepartementet Official: Så, AR-15 är USA: s gevär eftersom det är vad USA: s militär bär. Den är modellerad efter M-16 som har burits av Amerikas armé och Amerikas marinkår och resten av våra tjänster sedan Vietnam. Idag bär ungefär 20 000 trupper ett liknande gevär i Irak och Afghanistan, och även de som inte tjänar känner att de är en del av den insatsen när de bär AR-15. Jag har läst att rekylen är lite mildare än några andra gevär. Så rekylen på M-16 eller AR-15 är utformad för att vara lätt, så att du kan hålla den på målet och fortsätta att skjuta kula efter kula efter kula. Det är av design. Här finns en massiv källa som absorberar en hel del av rekylen. Det finns också, av design, ett gassystem som tar en hel del gas från avfyrning av varje kula, och det avdunstar det, så att när varje kula avfyras, att gas och att rekyl inte kommer tillbaka på axeln varje gång, men det är faktiskt i geväret på ett mer konstruktivt sätt. Och den funktionen skulle också göra det möjligt för en skytt att hålla stadigt. Det är ett militärt gevär. Den är utformad för att leverera massor av kulor till en mycket specifik mål över tid. Det här är ett vapen som är avsett att döda i massmängder. Det är ett militärt vapen. Så det här är i huvudsak en civil version, sa du, av M-4 eller M-16. - Ja, det gör jag. Detta är väldigt likt en civil version av en Humvee eller en civil version av någon annan typ av militär utrustning. Det finns vissa modifieringar av detta som gjorts för att göra det till en civil variant. Vad som är annorlunda på de civila versionerna är, det tillåter bara halvautomatisk eld. Så du vänder den här för att skjuta, och det gör att du kan skjuta ett skott i taget. De militära versionerna skulle göra att du kan byta till halvautomatisk och sedan, återigen, antingen för tre-runda skurar eller för helautomatisk, om du skjuter en äldre variant av M-16. Helt automatisk, menar du? Tryck på avtryckaren och vapnet fortsätter skjuta tills magasinet är slut. Din förmåga att sätta ner kulor med detta vapen begränsas mest av din förmåga att ladda om det. Och magasinet för geväret ser ut så här. Detta är en 30-runttidning som bär 30 kulor av den 5,56-millimetersvarianten. Och det går in i tidningen bra här. Det är mycket lätt att ladda om. Det är mycket lätt att få in mer ammunition där och fortsätta att skjuta på ditt mål. Ammunitionen till M-16 eller AR-15 är en 5,56-millimeterskula. Det är en mycket liten och mycket snabb kula som gör en hel del vävnadsskador när den träffar en person. Så bara spetsen här är kulan. Det är ungefär lika stor som din lillfingerspets. Men det drivs framåt av en massiv patron av pulver som skjuter detta med en mycket hög hastighet, skapa en kula som kan slå genom mål, oavsett om de är mänskliga eller inte, med en hel del dödlighet och kraft. Det andra med denna kula är, eftersom den är så liten och rör sig så snabbt, den tenderar att tumla eller bli instabil när den träffar en person, och så den tenderar att skapa ett mycket sår och mycket svårbehandlade sår. Återigen är det ett militärt vapen. Den är inte avsedd för jakt, där du kanske vill konservera köttet så att du kan äta det. Den är utformad för att såra eller döda soldater i strid. Det finns hundratals företag i USA som gör gränsen till AR-15. NRA säger att vapnet kan användas inte bara för jakt, utan för sportskytte och självförsvar. För "PBS NewsHour," Jag är John Yang. En sammanfattning av detta är?
Here's a news article: Here's what you need to know about the weapons that some call the "gold standard of mass murder", after Orlando shooter Omar Mateen used assault-like rifle Sig Sauer MCX to kill at least 49 people. (Editor's note: This video has been updated with more specific information.) (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post) In the hours after Sunday's mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub, Chief John Mina of the Orlando police said the gunman's weapon included a gun and an “AR-15-type assault rifle.” On Monday night, officials made it clear that the Omar Mateen rifle used in the shooting was not an AR-15, but a Sig Sauer MCX rifle. While aesthetically similar and as deadly as an AR-15, MCX is another beast, thus everything but removing it from the AR-15 family of rifles. But even if the weapon is different, the MCX and AR-15 have the same design purpose: to provide a very portable, adaptable, easy to use and precise rifle for the person who has it. [A legislator plans to give away assault rifles as collection prices days after Orlando] As Bob Owens from the blog “Bearing Arms” points out, MCX is a modular rifle that is designed to be able to be changed between a variety of calibers and “otherwise, no major parts have as interfaces with AR-15s in any way, form or form.” Originally designed for U.S. special operations forces, MCX was built from “ground up” to be light and short, and it accepts “a wide set of accessories, so you can build a complete weapon system for any scenario or environment,” Sig Sauer website says. While the MCX could shoot the same caliber ammunition – .223 – as an AR-15, the MCX was initially supposed to fire a round called a .300 Blackout. The relatively new caliber, according to Owens, was intended to provide Special Operations Command with a bullet that was as quiet as a gun round but packed the range and mortality of a rifle cartridge. A side effect of the bullet design is that it mimics the size of the round fired by AK-47-type rifles. However, the most important difference is between the standard series AR-15 of rifles and the MCX is the operating system used to mechanically drive the bullet from the gun and cycle the next round to be fired. The initial AR-15 (AR stands for Armalite Rifle), designed by Eugene Stoner in the late 1950s, used a system called “direct impingement.” Most modern AR-15-type rifles use this system. Direct impingement means that when a round is fired, the gas generated from the fired bullet is pushed through a hole in the barrel and then channelled back through a tube leading directly to the weapon's bolt assembly. The gas, which goes back to the back of the rifle, moves the bolt drive at the rear and then ejects the used housing. A spring in the weapon's bearing then drives the bolt assembly forward again and inserts another bullet from the magazine into the rifle chamber, rebooting the entire process. However, MCX is known as a "piston gun", meaning it uses gas piston technology to power the inmates in the rifle. When the rifle is fired, instead of the excess gas entering a small tube directed to the bolt assembly, the gas is pushed into a cylinder connected to a piston. The gas in the cylinder then drives the piston, which then cycles the screw much like the impingement system. Mikhail Kalashnikov's AK-47 series of rifles also uses a gas piston system. 1 of 25 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × What the survey of Orlando mass shooting looks like Visa Photos Officials are searching the site and others in the area for information about the June 12 massacre. Caption officials are looking for the site and others in the area for information about the June 12 massacre. June 15, 2016 Police gather outside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando during the shooting investigation. David Goldman/AP Buy photo Wait 1 second to continue. Read more: Shooter Omar Mateen's father says he is sad about the massacre, calling Gunman ‘a good son' The story of AR-15 This is the military-style equipment used to respond to the attack in Orlando <unk> by: Debbie Lord, Cox Media Group National Content Desk Updated: June 14, 2016 - 12:24 After the attack in Orlando Sunday, and others that have taken place in the recent past, it seems that we hear the terms “assault weapons” and “assault rifles” quite a lot. Some would argue that with almost 50 people killed in Orlando, the names of the weapons do not matter and are simply a difference without distinction. However, in the case of the two (separate) types of weapons, there are a lot of differences. So what is an assault weapon, how does it work, and how is it different from an assault rifle? Here's a quick look. What's an assault weapon? An assault weapon is a fast-fired, magazine-fed rifle intended for military use. It is a shoulder-fired weapon that allows the shooter to choose between semi-automatic (requires to press the trigger for each shot), fully automatic (hold the trigger and gun fired continuously) or three-shot-burst mode. What's a "mistake rifle"? Technically, there's no such thing. What is called an assault rifle in reports of gun violence is actually a semiautomatic rifle similar to the assault weapons used by the military. An AR-15 rifle, as well as one that has been used in some mass shootings, is an example of this type of weapon. According to police, the shooter used a Sig Sauer MCX on Sunday's attack. What's the difference between a semi-automatic and an automatic weapon? An automatic weapon (assault weapon) can shoot more than one round when pulling the trigger. A semi-automatic weapon (‘missile rifle’) does not. Automatic weapons have not been used in recent mass shootings. In the shootings in Orlando, New Town, Ct., and San Bernardino, semiautomatic weapons, one requiring each time to pull a cartridge, the weapons were used. The weapon used in some of these shootings was an AR-15. Does not the ‘AR’ stand for ‘automatic rifle’? No, "AR" in the name of the weapon stands for ArmaLite Rifle. It was that company that developed the weapon almost 60 years ago. The company sold the rights to firearms to the Colt Company which in turn modified the rifle and sold it to the military as M-16. M-16 is an automatic weapon – hold the trigger and several shots can be fired. AR-15, like Sig Sauer, requires that you pull the trigger to fire each cartridge. If it's not an automatic weapon, how does a shooter shoot so many shots? Semi-automatic rifles can hold high-capacity magazines – compartments that hold cartridges. This allows the shooter to launch dozens of rounds in a short time. A Sig Sauer and an AR-15 newspaper generally hold 20-30 rounds. There are magazines that can hold more. How hard is it to get a semi-automatic weapon? In most cases, getting a semiautomatic rifle is no more difficult than getting a gun. Seven states -- California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York - along with the District of Columbia have passed laws prohibiting semi-automatic weapons. Minnesota and Virginia regulate semi-automatic weapons. There is no ban on buying the weapons in any other state. In Florida, you do not need a license to own or buy a small arms, shotguns, or rifles, nor do you need to register a gun. To buy a gun from a gun store, you have to pay $8 and fill in the paperwork for a background check. If you pass the background check, I'll give you the gun. If the gun is a rifle or a shotgun, you don't have to wait three days to get it. For a gun, there is a mandatory 3-day “cooling off” period in Florida – one of just 10 states that require no waiting time for the purchase of a gun. You don't need a federal wait when you buy a gun. Waiting periods are imposed by states. Can I buy an automatic weapon? Here is where you need to understand the difference between automatic and semi-automatic. Semi-automatic weapons are relatively easy to buy. However, the only automatic weapons that are legal to buy for civilians in the United States are those that have been registered between 1934 and 1986. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, an “assel rifle” (or automatic weapon) is a machine gun. No new machine guns can be manufactured or sold to civilians. Automatic weapons have been tightly regulated since the National Firearms Act of 1934. Taking possession of such weapons requires paying a $200 federal transfer tax, filling in an application to register the weapon, sending passport photos, getting your boss law enforcement official to sign your application, and filing to an FBI background and fingerprint check. The weapons are hard to get hold of and generally quite expensive. You don't want to break the gun code. If you do, expect to be in prison for 10 years when you figure out how to pay the $100,000 fine. Sources: The NRA; smartgunlaws.org; The FBI; The Wall Street Journal © 2016 Cox Media Group. Omar Mateen, the Orlando shooter, used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and a 9 mm semi-automatic gun to kill 49 people at the Pulse Sunday nightclub. The same type of rifle was also used by the shooters at San Bernardino, California; Umpqua Community College in Oregon; Sandy Hook and several other mass shootings in later years. On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton described the rifle as a "war weapon" that should be banned, and President Obama agreed. However, effective prohibition can be difficult to reach. The AR-15 used to be illegal. President Bill Clinton's assault weapon ban, which applied from 1994 to 2004, prohibited AR-15 and other guns that were for equal weapons in military style. However, this law did not prohibit Americans from owning semi-automatic weapons; it limited how many military functions a single gun could have. During the ban, a semi-automatic rifle such as the AR-15 could legally have any of the following functions, as long as it did not have two or more of them: a folding layer (makes the gun slightly easier to hide), a pistol grip (makes the weapon easier to hold and use), a bayonet mount, a flash dampener (makes it harder to see where shots come from), or a mortar. A 2004 report commissioned by the Department of Justice on the effects of the assault weapon ban concluded that the law was largely ineffective in limiting access to weapons with the power of the AR-15. According to the report, the ban focused on “functions that have little to do with the weapons operation, and removing these features is enough to make the weapons legal.” The report noted that several semi-automatic rifles functionally corresponded to AR-15 and untouched by the ban. It is difficult to know whether Mateen's AR-15-style weapon would have been covered by the old ban, although some versions of the Sig Sauer MCX rifle he used are sold with more than one of the components limited by the law. Depending on how many military functions the rifle had when he bought it, it may have been legal under assault gun ban. And he himself could have modified the weapon, even under the old law. The review of the Justice Department report showed that bans on specific models or characteristics of assault weapons had little or no noticeable impact on dead weapons. If the law had any effect, the report said, it was most likely the result of banning large capacity magazines, which contain 10 or more rounds. (Big magazines allow shooters to continue firing without pause to reload, a point where their target could run or fight back.) Calculations based on murder reports in Jersey City, New Jersey, suggest that limiting large-capacity magazines can reduce the number of gunshot victims by up to 5 percent. However, there are a large number of high-capacity magazines that are already in circulation. The report author concluded that a ban on them would probably not make it difficult to keep a determined shooter from legally buying a curse magazine and pairing it with an AR-15 equivalent. These crawls are part of an attempt to archive pages to which they are created and archive the pages to which they refer. In this way, when the pages referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that lived when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put instead of a link that would otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's author.The aim is to fix all broken links on the web. Creeps of supported "No More 404" sites. It took us 38 minutes to get out of a gun shop with a killing machine. Just two days after Omar Mateen used a semi-automatic rifle to murder 49 innocent people and injure dozens more, we could buy an AR-15 -- a rifle similar to Mateens that has been used in several other mass shootings on American soil -- in less time than it takes to buy a cart full of food. We would have been locked and loaded within five minutes, but gun shop employees we were talking to said the queue on background checks was longer than usual because people were crowding into buying AR-15s in the wake of the shooting. It's both frightening and unsurprising -- gun sales often skyrocket after mass shots. But the ease with which we bought our AR-15, a Vietnam-era gun hailed by the military as the perfect killing machine, was surreal. This, despite Florida Gov. Rick Scott had declared a state of emergency in Orange County, which includes Orlando. Whether your city has endured a terrible tragedy, it is not difficult to buy a mass murder weapon as we did in most of America. A reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News could get one in just seven minutes in Pennsylvania on Monday. Within seconds, we had it in our hands: A rifle weighing less than a small watermelon and, like the MCX Sig Sauer used by Mateen, can easily fire several dozen shots in less than 10 seconds. Our Diamondback DB15 killing power is striking, and at $644, it is a relatively affordable murder weapon. Huffington Post HuffPost's Andy Campbell gets the feel of Diamondback DB15. The employees of the gun shop were happy to discuss deaths. When another customer who wants to buy a small, .22-caliber handgun noted that it would not go well against a "6 feet-3, 350 pounds man," the employee agreed. “You would have to hit him in the neck or heart,” said the employee, whom we do not name for this story. He went on to joke with the customer that he should either pick a larger gun or use .22 to “shoot him in the stomach 15 times, it would really piss him.” Behind him, TV blazed Fox News coverage of the massacre at Pulse nightclub, is nearby. On the wall, a framed photo of President Barack Obama with the caption, "Firearm Salesman Of The Year", hung next to a series of other long rifles, some of them higher caliber than AR-15, and some of them more affordable, too. Semi-automatic rifles such as AR-15 have been used in several of the deadliest shooting ramps in the United States in recent years, even before the Orlando attack. The killers behind the mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, elementary school at Newtown, Connecticut, and the Aurora, Colorado cinema all used AR-15s. Huffington Post Andy Campbell / Huffington Post They're not the cheapest rifles around -- another, higher caliber carbine hung on the wall of our store for half the price. But the National Rifle Association calls the AR-15 the most popular weapon in the United States "It's adaptable, adaptable, reliable and accurate," the organization says on its blog. Shop workers said we had to wait if we wanted to buy a smaller gun. There is a three-day waiting time for handgun purchases in Florida, but that rule does not apply to rifles. The employee chatted a little and explained that all weapons fall under one of three classifications: Leisure, defense and hunting. We're not sure which category Mateen's gun falls under. Under any of the gun shop worker's definitions, there appears to be no reason for a weapon capable of firing 10 or more bullets in quick succession. AR-15 and its close cousins are not made to hunt deer. They're made to kill people. All it took to achieve one was a driving licence (what we used was from outside the state) and a few minutes to wait for the background check to clear. We signed evidence of sales asking if we were criminals or drug addicts and where we lived. Waiting for the background check was the hardest part -- and it was just a few minutes of idle time. We requested information from the State Department of Police on the current volume of background checks for similar weapons, but received no immediate response. The department has been overwhelmed by public records after the shooting, said a spokeswoman. Nothing that we or the employees did was illegal or unusual. You can buy semi-automatic rifles in several stores in the Orlando area. Starting with this writing, we have the same firepower that Mateen had when he opened fire on one of Orlando's most famous gay clubs. However, we have no ammunition - the store ran out of .223-caliber rounds. We're going to return the gun. Eventually, it will join countless other rifles of its kind in the legal, large American arms market. UPDATE: 6/15 -- We tried to return AR-15 to the store where we bought it. Although they had a return policy, they refused. So we chose to hand over the gun to the Orlando police, who said they'd have it destroyed. On June 12, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 with a 9 mm pistol and a semi-automatic pistol called Sig Sauer MCX, an AR-15-like rifle trumpeted by the manufacturer as ‘the first real mission-adapted weapon system' that ‘distorts everything that came before it'. Despite being under FBI investigation in 2013 and 2014, Mr. Mateen faced no obstacles when he bought these weapons the days before entering Pulse, a gay nightclub, in Orlando, Florida, and sprayed revellers with bullets. Many commentators again wonder why such a dangerous weapon is freely available for civilian purchases. The AR-15 has been an optional weapon in several other recent mass shootings, including the killing of 14 people attending a December holiday party in San Bernardino, California, the murder of 12 at a film theater in Aurora, Colorado in 2012 and, later that year, the slaughter of 26 children and employees at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The National Rifle Association (NRA) museums that “AR” could stand for “America’s rifle”, as the AR-15 is the nation’s most popular long gun, with as many as 10m units in circulation. People are attracted to the AR-15 for hunting, sports shooting and self-defense, says the NRA, because “it is adaptable, adaptable, reliable and accurate” as well as easy and easy to change. While its fully automatic military cousin, the M16, shares its appearance, the AR-15 only shoots one round per trigger pull. It is thus a misnomer, gun rights advocates say, to call the AR-15 a military-like "assault rifle", a term that has been used since Nazi Germany introduced Sturmgewehr in 1944 (which in turn inspired the Soviet AK-47). Unlike fully automatic rifles, which can fire 750 to 900 rounds per minute and are only available to the Armed Forces, the AR-15 and its relatives (sold by the millions to the public) can muster only about 45 to 60. But as the Orlando tragedy showed, this limited capacity can still be very deadly. Get our daily newsletter Upgrade your inbox and get our daily mailings and editor selections. Gun-control advocates began using the term "assault armament" to refer to semi-automatic firearms such as AR-15 in the 1980s. In the wake of a school shooting in Stockton, California, the first President Bush approved a measure to ban the import of such weapons in 1989. In 1994, Bill Clinton signed the federal Assault Weapon Ban, a law restricting the production of large-capacity magazines and a large range of semi-automatic firearms. However, due to a ten-year sunset provision, the ban was lifted in 2004 and efforts to reinstate it—together with attempts to cope with other weapons control measures—have failed. Gun-right's advocates complain that the "mistake" moniker is meaningless. It is used by gun-hugging activists, says an article in the National Review, as “a sharp and effective tool with which the enemies of the right to hold and carry weapons have sought so confusion, fear and ignorance.” The weapons that fall under the ‘mistreatment umbrella’ are ‘a set of quotidian weapons that have never posed a major problem for anyone’. After another mass shooting in which an AR-15 certainly posed a problem for many people stuck in a nightclub, such a blasé strategy for powerful civilian weapons may be more difficult to maintain. Ludwig Wittgenstein, a major 20th-century philosopher and a veteran of World War I, wrote in his "Philosophical Investigations" that when "we use the word "meaning", we usually refer to the everyday purpose of any phrase. “The meaning of a word,” he wrote, “is its use in language.” With this sensible about trivial standards: if an AR-15 can be used to attack large crowds, kill and maim masses of them, on several occasions, it qualifies as an assault weapon. “ Editor’s note: This story focused on the AR-15 rifle, which was the weapon used in several recent mass shootings. Orlando police officers initially said this was the same weapon type used in the Pulse nightclub shooting, but later made clear that the Orlando shooter used a Sig Sauer MCX. Sig Sauer MCX is a rifle with several similarities to the AR 15 style and was originally designed for use by U.S. Special Operations forces. The NewsHour regrets the confusion. GWEN IFILL: The weapon used in the Orlando shooting is at once one of the most popular and most abusive weapons in America, AR-15, the civilian version of the standard U.S. military number rifle. John Yang has a closer look. JOHN YANG: NRA says it is America's most popular rifle, used legally and safely by millions of people. A lawyer for the victims' families says it's the gold standard for mass murder of innocent civilians. The AR-15 has been used in some of the country's worst mass shootings, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, an Oregon community college, and now an Orlando gay club. To learn more about the rifle, its popularity among gun enthusiasts and its place in American culture, we went to a Northern Virginia gun range to speak to former Assistant Secretary of Defense Phillip Carter, himself a gun owner, who knows AR-15 well from his service as Army officer. Why is the weapon so popular? PHILLIP CARTER, former Department of Defense Official: So, AR-15 is the U.S. rifle because that's what the U.S. military is carrying. It is modelled on M-16 which has been carried by the Army of America and the Marine Corps of America and the rest of our services since Vietnam. Today, about 20,000 troops carry a similar rifle in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even those who do not serve feel they are part of that effort when they carry the AR-15. I've read that the recoil is a little milder than any other rifle. So the recoil on M-16 or AR-15 is designed to be easy, so you can keep it on target and continue to shoot bullet after bullet after bullet. It's of design. There is a massive source that absorbs a lot of the recoil. There is also, of design, a gas system that takes a lot of gas from the firing of each bullet, and it evaporates it, so that when each bullet is fired, that gas and that recoil does not come back on the shoulder every time, but it is actually in the rifle in a more constructive way. And that feature would also enable a shooter to hold steady. It's a military rifle. It is designed to deliver lots of bullets to a very specific target over time. This is a weapon designed to kill in mass numbers. It's a military weapon. So this is essentially a civil version, you said, of M-4 or M-16. - Yes, I do. This is very similar to a civil version of a Humvee or a civil version of any other type of military equipment. There are some modifications to this that have been made to make it a civil variant. What's different about the civilian versions is, it only allows semi-automatic fire. So you turn this thing around to shoot, and it allows you to shoot one shot at a time. The military versions would allow you to switch to semi-automatic and then, again, either for three-round showers or for fully automatic, if you shoot an older variant of M-16. You mean, completely automatic? Pull the trigger and the weapon will keep firing until the warehouse is out. Your ability to put down bullets with this weapon is most limited by your ability to reload it. And the magazine for the rifle looks like this. This is a 30-round magazine carrying 30 bullets of the 5.56-millimeter variant. And it goes into the paper well here. It is very easy to reload. It is very easy to get more ammunition in there and continue to shoot at your target. The ammunition to M-16 or AR-15 is a 5.56-millimeter bullet. It is a very small and very fast bullet that does a lot of tissue damage when it hits a person. So just the tip here is the bullet. It's about the size of your little finger tip. But it is driven forward by a massive cartridge of powder that shoots this at a very high speed, creating a bullet that can strike through targets, whether human or not, with a lot of mortality and power. The second thing about this bullet is, because it is so small and moves so fast, it tends to tumble or become unstable when it hits a person, and so it tends to create a lot of wound and very difficult to treat wound. Once again, it's a military weapon. It is not intended for hunting, where you may want to preserve the meat so you can eat it. It is designed to hurt or kill soldiers in combat. There are hundreds of companies in the United States that make the border to AR-15. The NRA says the weapon can be used not only for hunting, but for sports shooting and self-defense. For "PBS NewsHour," I'm John Yang. A summary of this is?
– Orlandoskjutningen har på nytt väckt frågan om de kraftfulla vapen som kanonmän använder vid masskjutningar. Medan polisen inledningsvis sade att Omar Mateen använde ett "AR-15-typ misshandel gevär," de har sedan klargjort att han använde en Sig Sauer MCX gevär. En titt på några av täckningen: The Washington Post tittar på dessa två vapen och finner att de är lika i stora drag: "ett mycket portabelt, anpassningsbart, lätt att använda och korrekt gevär." Men en stor skillnad är i mekaniken av hur kulan drivs och nästa runda klar. Det är "direkt impingement" mot "piston gun", som Post förklarar här. Sig Sauern kan använda magasin som är gemensamma för andra halvautomatiska, "men har i övrigt inga större delar som på något sätt, form eller form samverkar med AR-15:or", säger bloggen Bearing Arms. ( Inlägget slår media okunskap i ämnet.) Ekonomen gräver i kontroversen om användningen av termen "assault gevär," som vapenrättsförespråkare säger är felaktig eftersom en pistol som AR-15 "skjuter bara en runda per avtryckare-drag." Orlando station WFTV erbjuder en primer på ämnen som skillnaden mellan halvautomatiska och automatiska vapen. (Ar-15 och Sig Sauer är i det första lägret; militärens M16 är i det senare.) PBS NewsHour gjorde ett segment på AR-15 här. En kolumnist från Philadelphia Daily News förklarar hur hon köpte en AR-15 på sju minuter. Två Huffington Post författare fick det gjort på 38 minuter. En New York Daily News-författare sparkar en AR-15 för sig själv. Han är "mest skräckslagen" till följd av detta. Men han säger att han har en tillfällig PTSD. FiveTrettyEight undersöker det komplicerade ämnet hur sådana vapen omfattas av vapenlagar.
“The Orlando shooting has raised the question again of the powerful weapons that gunmen use in mass shootings. While police initially said that Omar Mateen used an "AR-15-type assault rifle," they have since clarified that he used a Sig Sauer MCX rifle. A look at some of the coverage: The Washington Post looks at these two weapons and finds that they are similar in broad features: "a very portable, adaptable, easy to use and accurate rifle." But a big difference is in the mechanics of how the bullet is driven and the next round finished. It's "direct impingement" against "piston gun", as the Post explains here. Sig Sauern can use magazines that are common to other semi-automatics, "but otherwise have no major parts that in any way, form or form interact with AR-15s," says the blog Bearing Arms. ( The post beats media ignorance on the subject.) The economist delves into the controversy over the use of the term "assault rifle," as gun rights advocates say is incorrect because a gun like the AR-15 "shoots only one round per trigger-stroke." Orlando station WFTV offers a primer on topics such as the difference between semi-automatic and automatic weapons. (Ar-15 and Sig Sauer are in the first camp; the military's M16 is in the latter.) PBS NewsHour made a segment of AR-15 here. A columnist from the Philadelphia Daily News explains how she bought an AR-15 in seven minutes. Two Huffington Post writers got it done in 38 minutes. A New York Daily News writer kicks an AR-15 for himself. He is "most terrified" as a result of this. But he says he has a temporary PTSD. FiveTrettyEight investigates the complex subject of how such weapons are subject to gun laws.