AR15.com is a firearm-enthusiast web forum[2] founded as a mail list in 1996 and headquartered in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
[1] The company that owned the website also manufactured AR-15 rifles and was founded in 1996 by Edward Avila, who moved it from Farmington, New York, to Texas after passage of the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act in 2013.
[8][4] GoDaddy told Axios that the action was due to the site's failure to moderate content "that both promoted and encouraged violence".
[9] The National Shooting Sports Foundation, in a message from its president, condemned what it called the "de-platforming of gun sites" as a "dark harbinger" for discussion of controversial issues and an "indiscriminate silencing of opinion and debate".
[10] As of January 2021[update], the DNS registrar for the AR15.com domain is Epik.