Former Idaho State Museum director Ken Swanson explains some of the Thompson submachine guns, or “Tommy guns,” on display at the J. Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Old Idaho Penitentiary in Boise.

Across American history, firearms have been used in multiple conflicts, evolving significantly since our earliest wars.

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 ...

The Five Best US Machine Guns Ever Produced: The United States military has produced some incredible machine guns throughout history, but worldwide, the machine gun has changed warfare forever.

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"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, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A tiny device called a switch can turn a Glock handgun into a weapon of war, and law enforcement says they’re infiltrating the Mid-South. The official name is a machine gun conversion ...

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The Trump administration has decided to permit the sale of devices that enable standard firearms to fire like machine guns, a move that one person familiar with the matter said was “by far the most ...