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How the AR-15 became the weapon of choice for mass shooters

Gena Hoyer’s Nissan has 189,000 miles on the clock. Her local mechanic has gently suggested it’s time to get a new one. But she’s not yet ready to: she used to drive Luke, her youngest son, to school in it. “It’s the last place he was with me,” she explains.

That was on Valentine’s Day, 2018.“I dropped him off at school. I said, ‘I love you Lukey bear,’ and he said, ‘I love you too,’ ” she recalls. “And that was the last time I saw him.”

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