The modern light machine gun sits at an interesting crossroads.For decades, the basic concept has been the same: provide a ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

Long before modern disintegrating links became standard, one family of machine guns experimented with surprisingly low-tech ammunition carriers. The result was a rugged, often awkward system that ...

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 ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

The U.S. military has spent a century modernizing almost everything with the exception of one machine gun. The Browning M2 entered service when biplanes and trench warfare still defined combat, yet it ...

A Third Circuit panel upheld Joseph Paul Berger’s machine gun and silencer convictions, holding that machine guns qualify as “arms” but may still be banned because they are not commonly used for ...