In 1718, British inventor James Puckle patented what may have been the world's first machine gun - a tripod-mounted, ...

"These are weapons of war," said the dad of a teen killed in a hail of 89 shots. Just weeks before he was killed along with three others in a hail of gunfire at a Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, ...

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 ...

When three teenagers opened fire at a SEPTA bus stop in Northeast Philly in March, injuring eight students on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, at least one of them was armed with a pistol that had been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON — Eleven-year-old Domonic Davis was not far from his mom’s Cincinnati home when a hail of gunfire sprayed out from a passing car. Nearly two dozen rounds hurtled through the night at a ...

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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 ...