Historic Information Serial Number Info 196775 In 1969 Browning started using two digits for the date of manufacture MBAR High Power Rifle. This was then. How the AR 1. Became Mass Shooters Weapon of Choice. The AR 1. 5 assault rifle was engineered to create what one of its designers called maximum wound effect. Its tiny bullets needle nosed and weighing less than four grams travel nearly three times the speed of sound. As the bullet strikes the body, the payload of kinetic energy rips open a cavity inside the flesh essentially inert space which collapses back on itself, destroying inelastic tissue, including nerves, blood vessels and vital organs. Its a perfect killing machine, says Dr. Peter Rhee, a leading trauma surgeon and retired captain with 2. Navy. The NRA vs. America. How the countrys biggest gun rights group thwarts regulation and helps put military grade weapons in the hands of killers. Rhee is most famous at home for saving the life of Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords after she was shot point blank in the head with a handgun fired by a mass shooter in 2. A handgun wound is simply a stabbing with a bullet, says Rhee. It goes in like a nail. With the high velocity rounds of the AR 1. Coke can. Versions of the AR 1. U. S. militarys standard issue assault rifle in every war since Vietnam. But only in the past dozen years have semi automatic models become a fixture of American life. Gun makers emboldened by Congress and cloaked in the Second Amendment have elevated the AR 1. In the process, this off patent combat rifle has become an infinitely customizable weapon platform that now accounts for nearly one in five guns sold in America. The federal government has deemed them semi automatic assault rifles with magazine capacities that serve no sporting purpose. But the National Rifle Association now simply calls the AR 1. Bushmaster Serial Number Dates' title='Bushmaster Serial Number Dates' />Browse all new and used Military Pistols U. S. for sale and buy with confidence from Guns International. Locations of the fifteen sniper attacks in the D. C. area numbered chronologically. Location Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D. C. Date February 16, 2002. Browse all new and used Colt Pistols 1908 for sale and buy with confidence from Guns International. A legendary event for a legendary optic. To celebrate the millionth Trijicon ACOG 4x32, were giving away product for 24 days, starting October 1, 2017. Winners to be. Alaskas List is a huge, online classifieds service, featuring thousands of firearms being offered for sale by users throughout the Greatland and beyond. Clean, well. Past Tests A number of tests have been made public but none offer the depth of information shooters demand. When considering an undertaking such as this, its a. Bushmaster Serial Number Date' title='Bushmaster Serial Number Date' />Americas Rifle. The mass market boom of the AR has been horrific for the rest of us. Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook Elementary with a Bushmaster AR 1. James Holmes wielded a Smith Wesson Military Police M P AR 1. The San Bernardino, California, shooters carried a pair of AR 1. ISIS inspired rampage that left 1. Orlando shooter Omar Mateen deployed Sig Sauers concealable next generation AR to murder 4. Pulse nightclub the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Time and time again we see it used to do what it was designed to do, which is to kill a lot of people in a short amount of time, says Mark Barden, managing director of the Sandy Hook Promise, a group dedicated to protecting children from gun violence. Bardens son Daniel precocious, kindhearted, an ace at foosball was one of the students murdered in Newtown, Connecticut. Poser Character S. Its designed for combat, he says. It doesnt have any practical application in civilized society. Gun makers call the civilian AR 1. The industrys trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation NSSF, maintains that AR 1. NOT assault weapons, adding that the guns look like military rifles . This line of argument is hard to square with the Armys own Field Manual, which instructs soldiers that semi automatic fire is the most important firing technique during fast moving, modern combat, adding, It is surprising how devastatingly accurate rapid semi automatic fire can be. The U. S. military chose the AR as its infantry rifle for the same reason its a clear and present danger in the civilian world It is uncannily easy to use. Before a trip to Threat Dynamics firing range in August, I had never shot a firearm. My trainer a pale eyed ex cop named Chris hands me an AR made by Daniel Defense, which markets its guns with photographs of U. S. soldiers and the tag line Use What They Use. Despite the menacing look of the weapon, Chris assures me, Little kids can shoot em theres so little recoil. Inside the range, I assume a combat stance. Hips nearly square to the target. Knees bent. Crunching slightly forward at the waist. Right eye behind the scope. Thumb on the safety. Flick. Release. Firing at the torso of the man size silhouette, I blast through two boxes of ammunition. When my half hour session with Chris is almost up, I load a final 2. The rifle shoots faster than I can aim, but Im learning the bouncing rhythm of the muzzle. How it rises with each shot, before settling back on target. Faster now. Boom. Boom boom. Boomboomboom. In less than a minute, my magazine is empty. Eighteen shots are direct hits to the forehead, face and chin. One bullet drifted down the jugular. I miss only once. The story of how this masterpiece of war technology morphed into a billion dollar blockbuster for domestic gun makers lays bare both the power, and recklessness, of the gun industry. With millions of semi automatic assault rifles now in civilian hands, and little more than a credit card swipe standing between an unhinged killer and one of these weapons, the AR 1. Americas gun debate. Following each new attack, as gun control advocates demand tighter restrictions on assault rifles, customers rush to local gun shops to stockpile more, driving a surge in gun maker profits. Before the election of Donald Trump, the legal tide had been turning. Federal courts had backed state laws limiting the deadliness of the AR 1. The Supreme Court even let stand a local ordinance banning them outright. The NRA would never admit it, says Adam Skaggs, litigation director for the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, but current precedent is clear The Second Amendment, he says, is not violated by a law that says you cant walk down the street with an AR 1. Now, the future of civilian assault rifles looks much more secure. Trump, helped to the White House by millions in advertising paid for by the NRA, is poised to overhaul the federal judiciary to the gun lobbys specifications. That process begins with the replacement of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia with another pro gun stalwart. During the campaign, Trump blasted assault weapon restrictions as a total failure. The government, his platform says, has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own. The assault rifle was born in World War II. The Nazi Sturm gewehr, or storm rifle, introduced in 1. It came equipped with a 3. Nazis mowing down waves of Russian conscripts on the Eastern Front. The Soviets debuted their own combat rifle in 1. Avtomat Kalashnikova, or AK 4. American GIs in virtually every military conflict since. The assault rifle a de Hitlerized translation evolved as warfare leaped out of the trenches into more open, guerrilla style clashes. The United States was late to enter the light arms race, but would eventually answer with the AR 1. The AR doesnt stand for assault rifle it stands for Armalite Rifle named for the small California company that designed the weapon. A subsidiary of an airplane manufacturer, Armalite fashioned lightweight guns from aircraft grade aluminum and modern plastics, aiming to bring the bulky wood and steel rifles lugged by soldiers in World War II and Korea into the jet age. A Defense report noted that the weapon was well suited for the violent short clashes at close ranges which are characteristic of guerrilla warfare in Vietnam. Horst FaasAPIn 1. D. C. sniper attacks Wikipedia. Beltway sniper attacks. Locations of the fifteen sniper attacks in the D. C. area numbered chronologically. Location. Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D. C. Date. February 1. September 2. 6, 2. October 2, 2. 00. October 2. 4, 2. 00. Target. Civilians in the Washington, D. C. metropolitan area. Attack type. Spree killing, mass murder, domestic terrorism. Weapons. Bushmaster XM 1. Deaths. 17 total 1. Beltway sniper attacks. Non fatal injuries. Beltway sniper attacks. Perpetrators. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. The D. C. sniper attacks also the Beltway sniper attacks were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2. Maryland and Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Ten people were killed and three others were critically injured, in the Washington, D. C., metropolitan area and along Interstate 9. Virginia. The snipers were John Allen Muhammad aged 4. Lee Boyd Malvo aged 1. Chevrolet Caprice sedan. Their crime spree, begun in February 2. Alabama, Arizona, and Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Washington, which resulted in seven deaths and seven injured people in ten months, the snipers killed 1. In September 2. 00. Muhammad was sentenced to death, and, in October, the adolescent Malvo was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences without parole. On November 1. 0, 2. Muhammad was put to death by lethal injection, at the Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt, Virginia. In 2. 01. 7, Malvos conviction to a life sentence without parole was overturned on appeal in Virginia, with re sentencing ordered pursuant to the Supreme Courts ruling in the case of Miller v. Alabama 2. 01. 2, which voided mandatory life sentence punishments for adolescent criminals as legally unconstitutional. Under the re sentencing, Malvos minimum sentence to prison will be determined by a judge the available maximum sentence would be life imprisonment. The ruling does not apply to the six life sentences Malvo received in Maryland. Preliminary shootingseditOn February 1. Keenya Cook was shot and killed at the front door of her home in Tacoma, Washington. On March 1. 9, 2. Jerry Taylor was killed by a single shot to the chest fired from long range as he practiced chip shots at a Tucson, Arizona golf course. Several deaths and injuries followed in other states from March to August 2. On August 1, 2. 00. John Gaeta was changing a tire at a parking lot in Hammond, Louisiana, and was shot in the neck by Malvo. The bullet exited through Gaetas back, and he pretended to be dead while Malvo stole his wallet. Gaeta ran to a service station after the shooter left and discovered that he was bleeding he went to a hospital and was released within an hour. On March 1, 2. 01. Malvo. 6On September 5, 2. Paul La. Ruffa, a 5. Italian restaurant in Clinton, Maryland. La. Ruffa survived the shooting, and his laptop computer was found in John Allen Muhammads car when he and Malvo were arrested. On September 2. Million A. Woldemariam was fatally shot in the head and back with a. Atlanta, Georgia. Woldemariam was helping the owner of a Sammys Package Store close up for the night when the shooting occurred. Nineteen hours later on the same day, Claudine Parker,9 a liquor store clerk in Montgomery, Alabama, was shot and killed during a robbery. Her co worker, Kellie Adams, was injured but survived. Evidence found at the crime scene eventually tied this killing to the Beltway attacks and allowed authorities to identify Muhammad and Malvo as suspects,1. October 1. 7. On September 2. Hong Im Ballenger was shot in the head and killed with a Bushmaster rifle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Microsoft Visual Foxpro 9.0.Iso more. Muhammad and Malvo were linked to the killing. Attacks in the Washington, D. C. metropolitan areaedit. A hole was cut at the rear of the blue 1. Chevrolet Caprice driven by Muhammad and Malvo, as a firing port to be used during their attacks. This allowed them to remain hidden and escape the scene following their attacks. Montgomery County, MarylandeditAt 5 2. October 2, 2. 00. Michaels craft store in Aspen Hill, Maryland. The bullet narrowly missed Ann Chapman, a cashier at the store. Since no one was injured, no serious alarms were raised. However, one hour later, at 6 3. James Martin, a 5. NOAA, was shot and killed at 2. Randolph Road in the parking lot of a Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store, located in Wheaton. On the morning of October 3, four people were shot dead within a span of approximately two hours in Aspen Hill and other nearby areas in Montgomery County. Another was killed that evening in the Takoma neighborhood of the District of Columbia. At 7 4. 1 a. m., James L. Buchanan, a 3. 9 year old landscaper known as Sonny, was shot dead at 1. Rockville Pike near Rockville, Maryland. Buchanan was shot while mowing the grass at the Fitzgerald Auto Malls. At 8 1. 2 a. m., 5. Premkumar Walekar was killed in Aspen Hill in Montgomery County, while pumping gasoline into his taxi at a Mobil station at Aspen Hill Road and Connecticut Avenue. At 8 3. 7 a. m., Sarah Ramos, a 3. Rossmoor Boulevard at the Leisure World Shopping Center in Norbeck. She had gotten off a bus and was seated on a bench reading a book. At 9 5. 8 a. m., in what was to be the last killing of the morning, 2. Lori Ann Lewis Rivera was killed while vacuuming her Dodge Caravan at the Shell station at the intersection of Connecticut and Knowles Avenues in Kensington, Maryland. The snipers then waited until 9 2. Pascal Charlot, a 7. Georgia Avenue at Kalmia Road, in Washington, D. C. Charlot died less than an hour later. In each shooting, the victims were killed by a single bullet fired from some distance and in each case, the killers struck and then vanished. This pattern was not detected until after the shootings occurred on October 3. Fear quickly spread throughout the region as news of the shootings spread. At a press conference meeting, Charles Moose informed parents that schools were on a code blue alert keeping children indoors and that for the time being the schools were safe. Many parents went to pick up their children at school early, not allowing them to take a school bus or walk home alone. Montgomery County Public Schools, District of Columbia Public Schools, and private schools went into a lockdown, with no recess or outdoor gym classes. Other school districts in the area also took precautionary measures, keeping students indoors. Police only had a few pieces of evidence to work with including one initial report that during the Silver Spring attack someone had reportedly seen a white box truck. After the murder in Washington D. C., witnesses then began telling police that they had seen a blue Chevrolet Caprice instead of the white box truck. They also had initially believed that all the murders were carried out with the use of a. Virginia and other areaseditAt this point Malvo and Muhammad started covering a wider area and taking two or three days between shootings. On October 4, 4. 3 year old homemaker Caroline Seawell was wounded at 2 3. Michaels store at Spotsylvania Mall in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, while she was loading purchases into her minivan. By this point, hundreds of journalists had converged to cover the unfolding events. Schools officials reassured the public that they were taking every measure possible to protect children by tightening security and cancelling all outdoor activities. On October 7, at 8 0.