AR-15-style guns are semi-automatic, meaning they fire a bullet for each pull of the trigger. Expect pushback from gun enthusiasts if you call an AR-15 an “assault rifle.”Īn assault rifle, by some definitions, is a military firearm capable of fully automatic fire, meaning it can fire without pause until empty. Still, long guns, which include rifles and shotguns, make up 53% of the firearms owned by civilians.
There have been many, many AR-15s and AK-47s sold in the past 10 or 15 years, but there have been far more handguns sold.”Īn October 2017 study led by researchers at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center finds that firearms acquired over the prior 20 years were disproportionately handguns. “That has really been the story of America’s love of guns. “There are just so many handguns out there,” Yablon says. That year, nearly 2 million rifles and 480,735 shotguns also were manufactured. In 2019, gun companies manufactured more than 3 million semi-automatic handguns, which the federal government categorizes as “pistols,” and 580,601 revolvers, data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) show. While AR-15 military-style rifles get a lot of media attention, most firearms made in this country are handguns. Meanwhile, 37% of the people killed by guns in 2019 - 14,861 people - were homicide victims. Most gun deaths - 23,941, or 60% - were suicides. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. died from injuries caused by firearms, according to the U.S. People who die in mass shootings represent a small fraction of the number who die from gunshots in the United States. Here are seven things journalists should keep in mind when reporting on guns: 1. We thank Henry Pierson Curtis, who covered gun and drug trafficking and other crime at the Orlando Sentinel for 25 years before retiring in 2016, and Alex Yablon, who covered the business of guns and gun policy for about five years at The Trace, for helping us create this tip sheet. To warn reporters about pitfalls they can encounter in covering guns and brief them on some basic terminology, The Journalist’s Resource teamed up with two reporters with lots of experience writing about firearms. Regardless, when the news media get facts wrong, audiences - especially gun owners - might not trust the information they provide. When reporters make mistakes, audiences might see their work as sloppy or, worse, perceive errors as an effort to mislead. adults say they own a gun and 44% live in a gun-owning household, according to a Gallup survey conducted in October 2020. Guns are one of the most divisive topics in the U.S., so it’s crucial for journalists to get the details right - down to the type and style of weapon discussed. Many other modern firearms, including handguns, have rifled barrels more precisely, a rifle is a long-barreled gun with such grooves.This journalism tip sheet on covering guns in the U.S., originally published in October 2018, has been updated with new data and other information. The article also defined a rifle as a firearm with grooves on its barrel walls.
18, 2012: This article originally stated that grips and mounts can modify the power of a semi-automatic gun (they modify the ease of use) that machine guns are mounted to a wall or rail (they often are, but not always) that a pistol is a firearm with a single, nonrevolving chamber (some pistols are, but not all) that no revolvers are semi-automatic (none are fully automatic) and that James Holmes bought his weapons on the Internet (he bought his ammunition on the Internet). In the Aurora shooting, James Holmes used an AR-15 which he had purchased legally from gun stores and ammunition that he had purchased on the Internet.* Certain models were proscribed under the 2004 ban, but myriad loopholes allowed slightly modified versions of the gun to be sold legally.
His mother, Nancy Lanza, acquired the gun legally.
Lanza’s specific model was a Bushmaster M4 Type Carbine, using several magazines of 30 bullets each. Rifles can be single action, semi-automatic, or fully automatic.*ĪR-15: The semi-automatic rifle Adam Lanza used as his primary weapon. Rifle: Long-barreled firearms with a groove carved into the barrel walls to give bullets spin.
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