A subway cleaner made an alarming discovery on a platform in Lower Manhattan on Friday.
A deadly, high-powered semi-automatic rifle was found in a garbage bin, police said New York Post.
The gun was found at the Cortlandt Street Station for the R train line around 3:15 p.m.
Police told the New York Post that the weapon was an unloaded AM-15 without a magazine.
Made by Anderson Manufacturing, an AM-15 is an “exceptionally lightweight, accurate and fully customizable” rifle, as described on their website.
An AM-15, an AR-15 style weapon, was found in the garbage bin of a subway platform in Lower Manhattan (stock image of an AR-15)
The gun was found at the Cortlandt Street Station for the R train line around 3:15 p.m. (stock image)
It is an AR-15 style weapon, the difference is the manufacturer. The ‘AR’ stands for the ArmaLite Rifle company.
AR-15 style weapons are often used in mass shootings. Several manufacturers have recreated their own versions of the weapon, but they are all called AR-15s.
About 16 million Americans collectively own 22 million AR-15 rifles. According to sources, these are the most popular rifle styles sold in the country Statistical.
Production of this model has increased enormously over the past thirty years. In the 1990s, the weapon made up only 1 percent of firearms produced.
In 2020, they accounted for nearly 25 percent of firearms in production.
Statistical reported that there have been 65 mass shootings involving guns since 1982. Most were semi-automatic.
Outside the Cortlandt Street subway station, where the weapon was discovered on Friday (stock image)
This terrifying discovery in the subway comes just over a month after a Florida high school student was accused of making a written threat to commit a mass shooting.
Police found airsoft guns, fake ammunition, swords, knives and throwing stars in the home of Carlo ‘Kingston’ Dorelli, 11, after a classmate tipped them off.
He had written a list of names and targets,” Sheriff Mike Chitwood wrote on Facebook. “He says it was all a joke.”