Subway cleaner makes horrifying discovery in trash can on Manhattan platform

A subway cleaner made an alarming find connected a Lower Manhattan level connected Friday. 

A deadly high-powered semi-automatic firearm was recovered successful a garbage can, constabulary told nan New York Post. 

The limb was recovered astatine astir 3.15pm astatine nan Cortlandt Street Station for nan R train line.

Police told nan New York Post nan weapon was an unloaded AM-15 pinch nary magazine.

Made by Anderson Manufacturing, an AM-15 is an 'exceptionally lightweight, meticulous and afloat customizable' rifle, arsenic described connected their website. 

It is an AR-15-styled weapon, nan quality is nan manufacturer. The 'AR' stands for nan institution ArmaLite Rifle.

AR-15-styled weapons are often utilized successful wide shootings. Several manufacturers person recreated their ain type of nan weapon, but they each are wide referred to arsenic AR-15s.

Roughly 16 cardinal Americans ain a corporate 22 cardinal AR-15 rifles. They are nan astir celebrated firearm style sold successful nan country, according to Statista. 

The model's accumulation has skyrocketed complete nan past 3 decades. In nan 1990s, nan weapon made up conscionable 1 percent of firearms being produced. 

In 2020, they accounted for astir 25 percent of firearms successful production.  

Statista reported that since 1982, location person been 65 wide shootings that progressive rifles. Most of them were semi-automatic.

This terrifying subway find comes conscionable complete a period aft a Florida mediate schoolhouse student was charged pinch making a written threat of a wide shooting.

Police recovered airsoft rifles, clone ammunition, swords, knives and throwing stars successful nan location of Carlo 'Kingston' Dorelli, 11, aft a classmate tipped them off.  

He had written a database of names and targets,' Sheriff Mike Chitwood wrote connected Facebook. 'He says it was each a joke.'