A high-performance sports car theft in northern Illinois turned into a far more serious criminal case after police discovered a weapon capable of fully automatic fire inside the vehicle. Now, the ...

Tristan Williams, 18, of Rockford, Illinois, was arrested after Homeland Security agents intercepted two illegal machine gun conversion devices he had ordered and a subsequent raid on his home ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There is an epidemic of mass shootings, with two happening on average every day in America this year. The mass attacks are made possible in many cases by shooters with automatic ...

Over the past decade, Massachusetts streets have been marked by a rapid surge in homemade weapons with massive firepower. With the rise of illegal devices that can turn semiautomatic pistols into ...

Legislation would establish a new Office of Public Defense managed by the State Police to oversee the sale and distribution of machine guns to eligible residents.

The 15-year-old accused of bringing an AR-15 to his Phoenix high school last week also allegedly possessed a device that would allow the weapon to function as a fully automatic machine gun, according ...

Yet with time ticking down as the House Judiciary Committee’s Democrats try to push through new gun regulations, Wednesday’s conversation spiraled into the bill’s minutiae. “I’m not suggesting that we ...