AR-15 Sightings
The AR-15 was such a brand new weapon that those who saw it typically used the words "machine gun" or more commonly "submachine gun" to describe it.
As an example, here is the Volkland photo sent over the AP wire and published in the Vancouver Sun:, with the caption describing that "An accompanying auto with a machine gun-carrying Secret Serviceman follows."
The AR-15 was such a brand new weapon that those who saw it typically used the words "machine gun" or more commonly "submachine gun" to describe it.
As an example, here is the Volkland photo sent over the AP wire and published in the Vancouver Sun:, with the caption describing that "An accompanying auto with a machine gun-carrying Secret Serviceman follows."
A crop of the Volkland photo became the cover picture for the book Mortal Error by Bonar Menninger.