All posts tagged "Assault Rifles"

A white supremacist methamphetamine user with a criminal record was found guilty this week after amassing a cache of assault rifles following last year's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

A Georgia school district close to one where a tragedy was narrowly avoided last month because an employee was able to convince a gunman to lay down his weapons has proposed putting assault rifles at each of its campuses.

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has instructed his deputies to carry AR-15 assault rifles at all times following a local detention officer's shooting death on Thursday, KPHO-TV reported.

A group of gun owners and gun rights advocates celebrated Independence Day on Thursday by marching on the headquarters of the Houston Police Department while carrying an array of shotguns and assault rifles. According to the Washington Examiner, the group was organized via Facebook and numbered about 25 attendees.

Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago who acted as White House chief of staff until 2010, is hoping to initiate a nationwide campaign of disinvestment from companies that make and sell military-style assault rifles along the lines of the 1980s disinvestment from apartheid South Africa.