The AR-15 would be enshrined as the national gun of the U.S. in a bill recently introduced to Congress by Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL), who described it as a counterattack to gun control.
“If a specific firearm is synonymous with the term ‘Americana,’ then it would be the AR-15,” he said while announcing the bill at an Alabama gun shop this week. He said the bill would send an important “message that we will meet every attack on any of our constitutional rights.”