Why millions of Americans — including me — own the AR-15
by Jon Stokes on June 20, 2016
Once again, there has been a mass shooting involving a gun that looks like an AR-15. (It’s
technically a Sig Sauer MCX, which may or may not be an “AR-15” … more later on this
definitional issue and why it actually matters beyond mere neckbeard pedantry.) And, once
again, the calls have gone out to ban the “black rifle” from civilian sales. “Nobody needs one of
these weapons of war” is the common refrain.