Military-grade ammunition manufactured at a Missouri facility has been used in at least a dozen mass shootings from AR-15-wielding assailants across the US within the last decade, with its shell casings recovered at the scene of some of America’s deadliest massacres.
Ammunition from the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, which has manufactured nearly every rifle cartridge used by the US military within the last 50 years, is also one of the largest manufacturers of commercial rounds for AR-15-style rifles, the most popular firearm in the US.
The facility operates with US Army oversight, with support from more than $860m from the federal government to improve production over the last two decades.
Twenty states are now asking the White House to block the sale of those rounds and the weapons that fire them to civilians.
A letter from New York Attorney General Letitia James and 19 other state attorneys general to the newly created White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention demands that the office investigate the “contracting and manufacturing practices that led to so many billions of military-grade rounds being sold into our communities” and to issue a report on its findings.
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