Showing posts with label Colt AR-15 rifle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colt AR-15 rifle. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Wal-Mart to phase out assault weapons like AR-15 within a week


The decision of Wal-Mart to phase out sales of assault rifles in its fleet of big-box stores is a timely one in view of increase in the number of gun related violence and death. The company has indicated that the decision to start taking modern sporting rifles, or "MSRs," off its shelves was not in response to political clashes about gun violence but it was actually a reflection on lack of customer interest in these products.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 29 August 2015.
Wal-Mart has revealed that it would be focusing on other hunting and sportsman firearms like shotguns and rifles, based on customer demand.
The Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart chain had MSRs in one-third of its 4,588 stores all across the country. This MSR category of weapon, which includes items such as AR-15s, will be fully phased out of its stores within a week.
It may be recalled that gun activists were especially critical of MSR-style weapons following the 2012 shooting incident in a school in Newtown, Connecticut. In that incident, 26 teachers and students died and the school was the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The shooter had used an AR-15 rifle.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Son of a Boston police captain arrested for planning terrorist activities


A 23-year-old youth Alexander Ciccolo of Boston was held on 4 July for unlawful receipt of two Glock handguns, a Colt AR-15 rifle and a SigArms high-powered rifle from an undercover witness who was working with terrorism investigators.
The youth is the son of a Boston police captain and has been arrested for allegedly planning to detonate pressure-cooker bombs at a US university in a terror plot that had been inspired by the Islamic State.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 15 July 2015.
It seems the father Captain Robert Ciccolo had alerted the FBI last year that his son had a long history of mental illness and was talking about joining IS. The youth was, then, put under surveillance by the FBI based on some of his posts on social media. Subsequently, he was watched as he was buying at least one pressure cooker at a Walmart store in North Adams, Massachusetts.
He had, reportedly, confided to an informant that he wanted to build bombs similar to those used in the attacks on the 2013 Boston Marathon, in which three people died and 264 others were injured. Moreover, partially built bombs were found in his apartment.
These incendiary devices or bombs contained shredded Styrofoam soaked in motor oil.
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