Watch: This proud gun owner destroys his AR-15

14:11, February 22, 2018

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  In many US states, 18 is old enough to buy a semiautomatic

  Just months after his 18th birthday, Nikolas Cruz went to a Florida gun store to buy a weapon. But there were limits on what he could purchase at his age.Cruz wasn’t old enough to buy any of the handguns at the store. But there’s no such restriction for rifles, shotguns or the AR-15 that police say he used to carry

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  Shooting survivors on potential collision course with Trump

  Student survivors of the deadly Florida school shooting who hope to become the face of a revived gun control movement are on a potential collision course with President Donald Trump.Several of the students have criticized the president, whose election was strongly supported by the National Rifle Association and who ran on a platform opposing gun control. Trump spent the weekend

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  Some US companies cut ties with NRA under mounting pressure

  Bob Ossler, chaplain with the Cape Coral volunteer fire department, places seventeen crosses for the victims of yesterday's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on a fence a short distance from the school in Parkland, Florida, February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan DrakeHalf a dozen U.S. companies have cut ties with the National Rifle Association as gun safety activists on Friday