Some also noted that the AR-15, which was developed by ArmaLite, was first manufactured in the mid-1950s — a decade after the fall of the Nazis. Marc Fisher, a Washington Post editor, posted a tweet on Thursday that read: “Invented for Nazi infantrymen, further developed by the US military, the AR-15 was the Texas school shooter’s weapon of choice…” Roy Rochlin“An amazing reach by the Washington Post,” tweeted Ian Miles Cheong. “While it’s true that the weapon is a descendent of the Sturmgewehr-44 it’s an incredible reach to even mention it,” Cheong wrote. “This is a bad faith attempt to conflate the two.”Twitter users noted that the AR-15 was manufactured by an American company a decade after the fall of Nazi Germany. APThe rifle used by the alleged gunman in Uvalde, Salvador Ramos, was obtained legally after he passed a background check, according to law enforcement officials.

Source: Washington Post May 27, 2022 16:03 UTC