Republicans & Mass Shooters’ Shared Love Affair with the AR-15

The AR-15 assault-style rifle, used to kill 49 people and wound 53 others in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub has become the weapon of choice by mass shooters. In the past 10 years, assault-style rifles have been used in 14 public mass shootings, half of which occurred last June. While Democrats have begun the calls to bar the weapon, Republicans have resisted, arguing that is an unconstitutional abridgment of the Second Amendment. Mark Sovel and Elliot Hill discuss the AR-15 and how Republican’s and the NRA can justify its continued sale on the Lip News.

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