CHICAGO (CBS) --Citing a surge in the number of firearms being illegally converted into machine guns, Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has ordered prosecutors to seek a prison ...

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 ...

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A sub-machine gun capable of firing 15 rounds a second has been shown to the trial of a man accused of shooting a woman outside a pub on Christmas Eve. Elle Edwards was killed by a man who opened fire ...

Gun lovers descended on Kentucky for the biggest private machine gun event in the world at the weekend, with shooters given one objective - destroy everything. Around 20,000 thrill-seekers fired Tommy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Key Points - The Nazi German MG 42, introduced in 1942, was a fearsome 7.92x57mm Mauser general-purpose machine gun renowned for its devastatingly high rate of fire (1,200-1,800 rpm) and reliability, ...

THE ELDER OFFUTT WAS ARRESTED WEEKS LATER. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CALLS IT AN EMERGING THREAT. MACHINE GUN CONVERSION DEVICES. WLKY MADISON ELLIOTT WAS IN FRANKFORT TODAY, AS LOUISVILLE’S POLICE ...

A Bexar County man who federal authorities say sold a machine gun-type weapon to a confidential informant has been sentenced to two years in prison. Jaime Sandoval Jr. pleaded guilty in January to one ...