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After Parkland, a surge in make-your-own AR-15 rifles

By Steven Nelson
Published March 13, 2018 4:01am ET
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After Parkland, a surge in make-your-own AR-15 rifles
In this screenshot from Defense Distributed's YouTube channel, a firearm made by the Ghost Gunner auto-milling machine is displayed. Defense Distributed's founder, Cody Wilson, says sales doubled in February after the Valentine's Day massacre at a Florida high school, where 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz stands accused of murdering 17 people with an AR-15. (Screenshot)

A gun-technology pioneer says he’s seeing a “huge explosion” in sales of a machine that allows people to make their own untraceable AR-15-style rifles in response to the national debate on gun control.

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