In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act, which barred the private sale and ownership of machine guns. The act grandfathered in machine guns that were registered with ...

Law enforcement says criminals are trying to stay one step ahead with a new gun modification.

Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn't a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...

The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over whether a 1930s ban on machine guns should be applied to bump stocks — modern devices that allow rapid, repeated fire. The justice repeatedly asked ...

In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed an effort to outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns. In Alabama, the governor made it a priority. Lawmakers in both states — one led by ...

"I can't understand how anybody could think these two things could be treated differently," Justice Elena Kagan said of the similarity between traditional machine guns and bump-stock-modified rifles.

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declared unlawful a federal ban on "bump stock" devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, rejecting ...

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