Poirot,
Terrorists obviously want the most reliable weapons available, the AR-15 and it's variants are excellent guns, accurate, lightweight, easy to maintain and it's high velocity 5.56mm round is lethal.
Notice that in Europe and the Third World the most reliable, easily available military grade rifle available to terrorists is the Russian built AK series, colloquially known as the Kalashnikov.

Suse,
The Orlando outrage has nothing to do with Christianity so why bring it up?
There is no evidence that the Orlando shooter was "homophobic" and considerable evidence that he wasn't, his father is just covering his own butt as it looks like he's in it up to his eyeballs too.
So too the statements made by his estranged ex-wife can be ignored, the kind of violent abusive behaviour she describes is normal among Muslims and it's common for men of any background to lapse into mental illness during a marriage breakup.
When are you going to start taking Muslims, in particular religious fanatics seriously? Honestly Caliph Al Baghdadi and his lieutenants must be tearing out their hair, raising their hands in supplication to Allah and beseeching of him "Why won't the Infidel see?"
This is propaganda by the deed, pure and simple, striking at the heart of liberal democracy to divide and intimidate the American people and draw the U.S government into the "armageddon" of Islamic eschatology.
ISIS can't complete it's divine mission on earth to bring about the global Caliphate without a series of wars occurring in the region of Syria and Iraq, that's really the long and the short of it.
Suse unless you accept or at least understand Islamic metaphysics as the basis of Islamist imperialism there's no point your commenting.

Why wouldn't it be a 'boost to Trump'? Trump is the only one prepared to deal with Islam. Silly question!

OK, so there was this fundamentalist firearm that took it upon itself to meticulously plan an attack breaking umpteen laws in the process,

cleansed itself at the local mosque (hey, all of those virgins are awaiting) and

then went off to murder a number of people,

all the while supremely confident in the knowledge that its act would be sensationalised by political and reporter hacks and

it would win national, even international, notoriety for its disgusting crimes.

Now do you want to hear the one about the naughty 20 litres of high octane and the automatic lighter (shush, don't mention the brands) or the fertiliser that got together with the diesel, or the knives that regularly do very bad things...

Simplistic BS

Just don't mention the social engineering of the leftist 'Progressives' that stuffed up, or Obama's rhetoric on social problems (to get elected!) and no action thereafter.

SM,

"This was the single worst mass shooting in US history and the biggest mass killing in the US since the 2001 9/11 attack.

Trying to paper over it as just another attack forgets that it was an Islamic inspired terrorist attack on western values."

The people who denounce this despicable act by a violent nutter as Islam inspired are the same folks who lobby to give people like Mateen easy access to assault weapons.

Explain that, SM?

Explain why it's the NRA and their mates in the Republican Party - Trump's Party - who promote easy access of assault weaponry for terrorist suspects?

Explain why the NRA and their mates in the Republican Party are gung-ho on US society being swamped with firearms involved in over 30,000 deaths annually - 11,000 of those deaths from homicide - and many more injured?

Islam and secularist are cousins. Islam kills the infidel while secularist murder the unborn. No wonder the likes of Susie sprout off such nonsense.

I see the gunmans ex wife claimed he was mad because he used to beat her for not doing the washing on time. Nothing to do with the Koran giving Muslim men that right is it? Oh that's right domestic violence is the domain of middle age white men. Just ask the Government.