A subway cleaner made a shocking find when they discovered a high-powered rifle in a trash can on a Lower Manhattan platform, cops said Saturday.
The long-barreled weapon was found around 3:15 p.m. Friday at the Cortlandt Street Station on the R subway line, about two blocks from the 911 Memorial and Museum, cops said.
“It was an AM15,” an NYPD spokesman said.
The rifle was found on a platform in the R train line at the Cortlandt Street station in Lower Manhattan. Stefano Giovannini 
A general view of a R train at the Times Square Station. Christopher Sadowski
The firearm was unloaded with no magazine, police sources said.
The AM-15 is a semi-automatic AR-style rifle produced by Anderson manufacturing. The weapons are frequently used in mass shootings.
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