This is the weapon used in Donald Trump's assassination attempt.

The semi-automatic AR-15 rifle is the weapon used in the attempt to kill Donald Trump on Saturday. It is known as one of America's most famous and notorious weapons, reports The Guardian.

Close to the fully automatic M-16 military rifle, AR-15 has been used in a number of recent mass shootings in the US, including the Las Vegas attack in October 2017, where 59 people were killed and the attack on the scene. - LGBTQ+ that left five people killed Colorado Springs in November 2022.

After trying to kill Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, attention will inevitably return to the presence of a weapon in American society.

Weapons control groups have long argued that the rifle whose initials were taken by the small arms company Arma Litte that has developed it has no place in the hands of civilians.

“It's a weapon that's really suitable only for soldiers in a war zone”, told about NBC last year Lindsay Nichols, policy director at the Giffords Legal Centre. “AThe ability to kill a lot of people fast is why we want to stop”.