He is reported to have been armed with two weapons, one of them an automatic rifle.
No hunter, and nobody interested purely in self-defence, needs a semi-automatic rifle with a 100-round magazine.
Ryan was dressed in combat-style camouflage clothing and roamed the area armed with a semi-automatic rifle and pistol.
Lanza, 20, carried out the attack after killing his mother, the legal owner of the weapons, which included a semi-automatic rifle.
After one man wielding a semi-automatic rifle murdered 35 people in Tasmania the month after Dunblane, Australia drastically tightened its gun laws.
The rifle model used by Jacob Tyler Roberts the 22-year-old cited in numerous media reports as the killer was an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
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Colorado and New York also passed new gun control requirements in the wake of the Newtown shooting, in which a 20-year-old gunman used a military-style semi-automatic rifle.
Over the past weekend, Defense Distributed successfully 3D-printed and tested an ammunition magazine for an AR semi-automatic rifle, loading and firing 86 rounds from the 30-round clip.
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In one photo, a smiling William Plotnikov is shown posing in the woods, an automatic rifle slung over his shoulder and a camouflage ammunition belt around his waist.
And at that time, a gunman, barely 20 yards away from her, who was in a police commander uniform, apparently, open fire on her with a Kalashnikov automatic rifle.
In both instances, the shooter used a high powered, semi-automatic rifle made by Bushmaster a unit of the closely held Freedom Group, which is not listed as an EA partner that was fueled by a large magazine.
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The 53-year-old actor originally had been sentenced to serve six years in prison on the charge of possessing an automatic rifle and a pistol that were supplied to him by men subsequently convicted in the bombings.
When my producer sent me that text, I recoiled at even the mere mention of seeing with my own eyes the real life results of what a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle could do to a 6-year-old body.
But Obama seemed to suggest he would support a renewal of an assault weapons ban that would prevent people from buying firearms like the military-style Bushmaster .223 semi-automatic rifle, which gunned down the children in Newtown.
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However, Pollack said the ban proposed by Obama can help reduce gun violence, especially what he called the psychologically impactful mass shootings such as the Newtown attack in which a lone gunman used a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle.
Mr Smith, who served for 10 years as an RAF aircraft engineer, said he suffered bruising to his body and a shoulder injury as he wrestled with Donovan who was holding the SA80 automatic rifle at waist level.
The president will make a similar appearance on Monday in Connecticut, less than four months after the Newtown attack by a lone gunman firing a semi-automatic rifle that would be prohibited under legislation under consideration in the U.S. Senate.
Dutt, 53, originally had been sentenced to serve six years in prison on the charge of possessing an automatic rifle and a pistol that were supplied to him by men subsequently convicted in a series of bombings that hit Mumbai.
So far those pieces have included high capacity ammunition magazines for AR-15s and AK-47s, as well as an AR lower receiver, the body of that semi-automatic rifle to which off-the-shelf components like a stock and barrel can be attached.
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The private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP announced it no longer wants the political liability of owning Bushmaster, maker of the semi-automatic rifle used by the Sandy Hook killer, as well as Remington Arms, Marlin, Bushmaster, DPMS, Barnes Bullets, Para USA and more.
They also come from a culture that supports access to lethal weapons: the crazy availability of guns like the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle used by Adam Lanza that are, in effect, weapons of mass destruction when turned against children at school, or moviegoers in a theater or shoppers at a mall.
The Soviet-designed automatic assault rifle, the Avtomat Kalashnikova, was first manufactured in 1947 (hence its commonest version, the AK-47).
In addition to the semi-automatic assault rifle that all those serving in the army can opt to store at home, there are thousands of hunting rifles and pistols.
The sources said Shahzad bought the semi-automatic Sub 2000 rifle less than two months ago at Valley Firearms in Shelton.
Investigators are also trying to determine who owns a number of guns that were found at the home, including a semi-automatic military-style rifle, the Associated Press news agency reports.
It is true that one of the guns used by Adam Lanza in his grotesquely evil and tragic Sandy Hook shooting rampage was a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle with high-capacity magazines, a gun which had been legally purchased by his mother.
For example, there's a lot of discussion about should people have the semi-automatic M4, which is an assault rifle that fires single shots, versus a fully automatic one, or couldn't you go up to a heavy one.
The attorney general said a search of Spyropoulos' home turned up two semi-automatic handguns, a shotgun and a rifle that police described as an assault weapon.
In Congress, some influential Democrats join virtually all Republicans in opposing, or at least questioning, a renewed ban on semi-automatic weapons like the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle used in the Newtown shootings.
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