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Line 46: ==Use in crime and mass shootings== Most gun killings in the United States are with [[handgun]]s,<ref name="CBS_2/16/2018">{{cite news \|author= \|date=February 16, 2018 \|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-many-u-s-states-18-is-old-enough-to-buy-a-semiautomatic/ \|title=In Many U.S. States, 18 Is Old Enough to Buy a Semiautomatic \|website=CBS News \|agency=The Associated Press \|quote=On average, more than 13,000 people are killed each year in the United States by guns, and most of those incidents involve handguns while a tiny fraction involve an AR-style firearm. Still, the AR plays an oversized role in many of the most high-profile shootings... \|access-date=February 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-4.xls\|title=Expanded Homicide Data Table 4\|work=2016 Crime in the United States\|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation\|access-date=2018-02-26\|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vTkTTIF1IpUC&pg=PT147\|title=Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces\|last=Balko\|first=Radley\|date=2013-07-09\|publisher=PublicAffairs\|isbn=9781610392129\|language=en}}</ref> and a 2013 analysis by [[Everytown for Gun Safety\|Mayors Against Illegal Guns]] concluded that 25% of the weapons used in mass shootings were [[assault weapons]].<ref name=help>{{cite web \|url=https://psmag.com/news/simple-facts-mass-shootings-arent-simple-72055/\|last=Todd \|first=Michael \|title=The Simple Facts About Mass Shootings Aren't Simple at All\| magazine=Pacific Standard \|accessdate=August 21, 2018\|date=December 23, 2013}}</ref> ~~Nevertheless~~ But it has been claimed that AR-15 style rifles have played "an oversized role in many of the most high-profile [[mass shootings in the United States]]"<ref>http://uk.businessinsider.com/ap-florida-shooting-revives-debate-over-gun-age-requirement-2018-2</ref> and have come to be widely characterized as the weapon of choice for perpetrators of these crimes.<ref>{{Citation\|title=Why mass shooters are increasingly using AR-15s \|first1=Bart \|last1=Jansen \|first2=William \|last2=Cummings \|newspaper=[[USA Today]] \|date=November 6, 2017 \|accessdate=February 15, 2018 \|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/06/ar-15-style-rifles-common-among-mass-shootings/838283001/ \|quote=AR-15 style rifles have been the weapon of choice in many recent mass shootings, including the Texas church shooting Sunday, the Las Vegas concert last month, the Orlando nightclub last year and Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.}}<br/>{{Citation\|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] \|authorlink=Richard A. Oppel Jr. \|first=Richard A. \|last=Oppel Jr. \|accessdate=February 15, 2018 \|date=February 15, 2018 \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/us/ar15-mass-shootings-guns.html \|title=In Florida, an AR-15 Is Easier to Buy Than a Handgun \|quote=The N.R.A. calls the AR-15 the most popular rifle in America. The carnage in Florida on Wednesday that left at least 17 dead seemed to confirm that the rifle and its variants have also become the weapons of choice for mass killers.}}<br/>{{Citation\|title=Why AR-15-style rifles are popular among mass shooters \|first=Whitney \|last=Lloyd \|date=February 16, 2018 \|accessdate=March 2, 2018 \|url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/ar-15-style-rifles-popular-mass-shooters/story?id=53111745 \|agency=[[ABC News]] \|quote=AR-15-style rifles have become something of a weapon of choice for mass shooters.}}</ref> AR-15 variants were the primary weapon used in the most recent six of the ten deadliest mass shootings in modern American history,<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Pearce\|first1=Matt\|title=Mass shootings are getting deadlier. And the latest ones all have something new in common: The AR-15\|url=http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ar-15-story.html\|accessdate=11 May 2018\|work=The Los Angeles Times\|date=14 February 2018\|quote=in all of the latest incidents...the attackers primarily used AR-15 semiautomatic rifles.}}</ref> including the 2012 [[Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting]], the [[2015 San Bernardino attack]],<ref name="NYT 13 June 2016" /> the [[2017 Las Vegas shooting]],<ref name="USA Today 14 Feb 2018" /> the 2017 [[Sutherland Springs church shooting]],<ref name="USA Today 14 Feb 2018">{{cite web\|title=Why the AR-15 keeps appearing at America's deadliest mass shootings\|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/14/ar-15-mass-shootings/339519002/\|website=USA Today\|accessdate=22 February 2018}}</ref> and the 2018 [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting]].<ref>{{Cite news \|url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/17-dead-horrific-florida-school-shooting-suspect-custody/story?id=53087462 \|title=At least 17 dead in 'horrific' Florida school shooting, suspect had 'countless magazines' \|last=Shapiro \|first=Emily \|date=February 14, 2018 \|publisher=[[ABC News]] \|access-date=February 15, 2018 \|deadurl=no \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215092445/http://abcnews.go.com/US/17-dead-horrific-florida-school-shooting-suspect-custody/story?id=53087462 \|archivedate=February 15, 2018 \|df=mdy-all }}</ref> Gun [[Expert\| expert]] Dean Hazen and mass murder researcher Dr. Pete Blair think that mass shooters' gun choices have less to do with the AR-15's specific merits but rather with familiarity and a copycat effect.<ref name=usa>{{cite web \|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/14/ar-15-mass-shootings/339519002\|last=Cummings \|first=William \|title=Why the AR-15 keeps appearing at America's deadliest mass shootings\| newspaper =[[USA Today]]\|accessdate=June 1, 2018\|date=February 15, 2018 }}</ref><ref name=today>{{cite web \|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/06/ar-15-style-rifles-common-among-mass-shootings/838283001\|last=Jansen \|first=Bart \|title=Why mass shooters are increasingly using AR-15s\|newspaper =[[USA TODAY]]\|accessdate=June 1, 2018\|date=November 8, 2017 }}</ref><ref name=abc>{{cite web \|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/ar-15-style-rifles-popular-mass-shooters/story?id=53111745\|last=Lloyd \|first=Whitney \|title=Why AR-15-style rifles are popular among mass shooters\| publisher=[[ABC News]]\|accessdate=June 6, 2018\|date=February 16, 2018 }}</ref> Following the use of a Colt AR-15 rifle in the [[Port Arthur massacre (Australia)\|Port Arthur massacre]], the worst [[Mass shooting\|single-person shooting incident]] in Australian history, the country enacted the ''[[National Firearms Agreement]]'' in 1996, restricting the private ownership of semi-automatic rifles with a capacity of more than 5 rounds ([[Gun laws in Australia#Firearms categories\|Category D]]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/assault-guns-made-here-20130123-2d7jx.html\|title=Assault guns made here\|last=Oakes\|first=Dan\|date=2013-01-23\|website=The Sydney Morning Herald\|language=en\|access-date=2018-02-26}}</ref>).<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/0708/FirearmsAustralia \|title=Firearms in Australia: a guide to electronic resources \|date=9 August 2007 \|website=aph.gov.au \|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia \|access-date=4 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/australia/2017-10-13/how-australia-passed-gun-control \|title=How Australia Passed Gun Control: The Port Arthur Massacre and Beyond \|date=October 13, 2017 \|website=[[Foreign Affairs]] \|publisher= \|access-date=18 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/15/it-took-one-massacre-how-australia-made-gun-control-happen-after-port-arthur\|title=It took one massacre: how Australia embraced gun control after Port Arthur\|first= Calla \|last1=Wahlquist \|date=14 March 2016 \|work=The Guardian}}</ref>