AR-15
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Initialism of ArmaLite Rifle, which was named after the company that originally designed the weapon.
Noun
[edit]- (trademark) A lightweight, semi-automatic rifle, based on the original design of the ArmaLite AR-15.
- 2018 February 16, Julie Vitkovskaya, Patrick Martin, “4 basic questions about the AR-15”, in The Washington Post[1]:
- An AR-15 once again made an appearance at a mass shooting, this time at a Parkland, Fla., high school on Wednesday. The suspect in the shooting, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, purchased the semiautomatic rifle about a year ago, according to a law enforcement official.
- 2023 March 27, Helen Lewis, “How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?”, in The Atlantic[3]:
- In the past decade, semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 have become the weapon of choice for young killers, and I needed to see what America was willing to put into the hands of teenagers in the name of freedom.