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 ...

The devices allow semiautomatic guns to fire more rapidly. They were banned after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history, at a Las Vegas concert in 2017. By Abbie VanSickle ...

The Army is preparing to replace its long-serving M240B machine gun, launching a multibillion-dollar program to field a next-generation automatic weapon for frontline troops, according to newly ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2017, it took a shooter 10 minutes to spray more than 1,000 rounds into a crowd ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a "bump stock" attachment does not convert a semiautomatic rifle into a "machine gun," which is prohibited under federal law. The 6-3 vote aligned with the ...

The Supreme Court’s conservatives pressed the Biden administration Wednesday to justify a federal ban on bump stocks, a device that can convert a semi-automatic rifle into a weapon that can fire far ...

The state and the city of Baltimore sued gun maker Glock on Wednesday for its failure to stop the rising trend of its handguns being modified into machine-gun-like weapons used in violent crimes. The ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled with the technical aspects of bump stocks during a hearing Wednesday on whether the federal government can ban them as "machine guns," with a few conservative justices ...

The U.S. Supreme Court today overturned a federal ban on bump stocks, the devices that can attach to a semi-automatic rifle to make it fire as fast as a machine gun -- potentially hundreds of rounds a ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday leaned in favor of upholding a Trump-era regulation that would outlaw bump stocks that enable rifles to work like machine guns and allow a shooter to spray ...