

“Very uncommonly does a Sunday go by that I don’t think: ‘What if? How would I get out? Would I get out? Would I be able to do something?’” “It feels like it was yesterday, like we’re still going through all of it,” Workman, 25, said. Workman suffers from toxicity symptoms, including body pains, fatigue, depression - and has been told by doctors that she probably can’t have a baby. Multitudes of purple freckles dot Morgan Workman’s legs, arms, chest and cheekbone - tiny shards of metal from bullets and shrapnel that struck her as she worshiped in her church more than five years ago. For this reason, we refer to the rifle broadly as the AR-15 in this series. While Colt still holds the trademark, “AR-15” has become a ubiquitous term for a popular style of gas-operated, magazine-fed semiautomatic rifles. The patent expired, leaving many companies to produce their own weapons, commonly called AR-style rifles. Colt acquired the AR-15 patent and trademark from Armalite in 1959.
