Armalite sold the rifle’s design to another firearms manufacturer, Colt, in 1959. Four years later, the U.S. military selected Colt to manufacture a standard-issue model of the AR-15 — dubbed ...

In 1994, the federal government passed a law that effectively banned the manufacture or sale of assault-style weapons for ...

and is the type model for the modern sporting rifle category. The New Jersey law only mentions AR-15s manufactured by Colt, ...