The Cube | We analyze the type of weapons used in recent shootings in the US.

Six people, including three children, were killed Monday in a shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.

The assailant was identified by authorities as Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former student.

Following the tragic shooting, a tweet has gone viral on social media, once again prompting calls for stricter gun laws in the country.

It implies that most of the country’s mass shootings, including the one in Nashville, have been carried out with a weapon. AR-15.

It’s true? Let’s take a closer look at this claim.

First of all, AR-15s are semi-automatic weapons, which means that the shooter must pull the trigger to fire each shot.

They are also the best-selling rifles in the United States: 1 in 20 adults (about 16 million people) owns at least one AR-15-type weapon, according to the Washington Post.

These weapons have also become an icon of the country’s epidemic of gun violence. Ten of the 17 deadliest mass shootings since 2012 have involved AR-15s.

The Cube has combed through a list that has spread on Twitter and found that the claim is mostly true.

An AR-15-style weapon was used in all but one of the mass shootings mentioned here.

It is about the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016, which left 49 dead. In that incident, it was another weapon called the Sig Mauer MCX that was used.

On the other hand, the type of weapon used in the 2021 Boulder shooting that left 10 people dead has not been disclosed.

But according to Colorado Public Radio, it most likely wasn’t an AR-15.

In the case of the Nashville shooting, The Cube has identified that one of the weapons used by the assailant was an AR-15 Grunt III style rifle made by the Lead Star company.

The Nashville school shooting is the 131st mass shooting that has taken place so far this year in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive as of Tuesday morning…

That means there have already been more mass shootings than days so far this year.

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