The first one up borrowed a trainer’s rifle, peered through the scope at ... a nonbinary community organizer, had fired an AR-15.

That includes the AR-15 style, sometimes called America’s most popular rifle. The Fourth Circuit Appeals Court upheld the law this summer in a 10-5 en banc ruling. Guns such as the AR-15 ...

The AR-15 is a model of lightweight semiautomatic rifle that is modeled on the Colt AT-15 rifle, the civilian version of the military M16 rifle that was first used by the U.S. military in the 1960s.