Advocates for tighter gun laws argue there's no need for Americans to own the powerful rifle, but the gun's proponents say the AR-15's accuracy makes it safe.
The NRA thinks that next year the Democratic president and the incoming, more strongly Democratic, Congress will start by going for a ban on semi-automatic assault rifles, such as the Russian-made AK-47, or AR-15's, which are a favourite with police departments.
However, Denver University law professor David Kopel said last week that the Supreme Court made clear that gun control could not include weapons used commonly by law-abiding citizens, such as the top-selling AR-15 that Feinstein's legislation would ban.
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Police recovered two handguns and 15 rifles at Grumberg's Saugerties residence including an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle after executing a search warrant.
He's almost sold out of AR-15s, he said.
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It's called Cast AR, and it's a pair of 3D augmented-reality glasses that she and fellow co-worker Rick Johnson were developing at Valve before leaving.
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While its optical design is carried over from the previous-generation model, the new-generation lens features Sony's proprietary Nano AR Coating on optical surfaces.
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One officer got out of the second vehicle and fired multiple rounds from his AR-15 rifle at Dorner's vehicle.
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The AR-15 is one of America's top-selling firearms, and has become a focus of the gun control debate after being used in a recent spate of mass shootings.
It's not clear what all of this means for Valve's AR work, but it's clearly still a work-in-progress.
Wal-Mart, the largest munitions seller in the U.S., removed some ads to to the type of weapon (an AR-15) used at Sandy Hook.
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Most of the victims were shot with the .22, but a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle was also used in the killings, sheriff's Lt.
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"An AR-15 (is) easier to shoot than a shotgun, there's less recoil in a .223 than a 12 gauge, " wrote one online user.
Whereas VR goggles immerse a user in a computer-generated environment, AR uses semi-transparent goggles, which overlay computer-generated graphics onto a user's view of the physical world.
By utilizing the Blender 3D creation suite (which was a first for Kumparak), Unity 3D engine and Qualcomm's Vuforia AR SDK, the result is an Android app that renders the 3D interior atop the random wave-like pattern -- visible once the door's removed -- on the TARDIS in real time (no pun intended).
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The rifle is a Bushmaster version of a widely made AR-15, the civilian version of the M-16 rifle used by the U.S. military.
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