The US Supreme Court has lifted a ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessory used in America's deadliest mass shooting. Bump-stocks, or slide fire adapters, allow semi-automatic rifles to fire ...

The number of shootings involving automatic weapons in the US has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting a troubling resurgence in the use of machine guns by criminals, according to an analysis ...

The Spitfire Mk1’s eight .303 Browning machine guns were lethal when aligned correctly - and this convergence test shows why. Precision fire at set distances turned the Spitfire into a flying scalpel ...

The machine-gun was a game-changing weapon of mass destruction. But did this awesome threat actually save lives? When, in 1861, Dr Richard Gatling patented the Gatling gun – one of the first reliable ...

Experts have warned that 3D printed guns are liable to fall apart or explode when firing, posing a potential threat to their users. Cody Wilson test fired the first 3D printed gun in Austin, Texas.

The Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse in Cincinnati, home of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. (Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress) ...

A bipartisan wave of legislation is sweeping across the US, targeting devices known as "Glock switches" that convert handguns into automatic weapons. At least half of US states now have laws on the ...