ban took affect, when it lapsed in 2004 the number began rising, today it stands at 20 million, this gave a kind of symbolic value for some on the political spectrum, but others, they just plain like having one. our randy kay has more on that. reporter: anna thomsen learned to shoot an ar-15 style rifle back in 2015 after a battle with breast cancer sidelined her from running marathons. being the girl in my family that did what the boys did so i never learned to do that before. reporter: did it give you confidence is that. incredible confidence, incredibly powering, the energy coming off that gun, is energizing and you re not tired gun. reporter: energized her so much, she became an instructor and along with her husband, now teaching others how to use it. we caught up with them at eagle gun range in texas. does it fire differently when
change in demand for the ar-15 style rifles after the most recent shootings? reporter: well john, you ve certainly seen a run on this type of weapon after other mass shootings. people hear a lot of talk of gun rights, of banning this style of weapon, so they tend to rush out to the stores and buy them but we spoke to the eagle gun range where we did our story and told me they haven t seen any uptick in demand or sales of the ar-15 style rifle and john, just one other note, you mention i want to put something in context. you mentioned nearly 20 million ar-15 style rifles in the united states now, that s actually just a very small percentage of the number of guns in the united states, there s actually 393 pill i kno million privately owned guns in the united states now so 20 million of those are these ar-15 style rifles, john. thank you for the report. now someone who used the close cousin, m-16 as tool of his trade, three star army retired
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