Although semi-automatic rifles have become more widely used ... including injuries and fatalities – are chosen at random or for symbolic value. Over the past five decades, handguns were ...

This ban expired in 2004, however, and in the years since, assault-style semi-automatic rifles have become among the most popular firearms in the United States. Civilian ownership of semi ...

"There needs to be drastic changes taken with this weapon," one said. Paul Kemp is the co-founder and president of Gun Owners for Responsible Ownership. A lifelong gun owner and hunter, he said he ...

The rifles are roughly 32 inches long, including the stock, and weigh about 6.8 pounds. Most weapons in this line are replicas of the Army’s M4 in semi-automatic form. They’re all lightweight ...

The proposal would ban the sale or import of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns with magazines larger than 10 rounds or other military style features, like threaded barrels, bayonet mounts ...

The federal excise tax imposed on the sale of certain firearms has not been updated since 1954 — “years before civilian automatic rifles were invented,” according to the legislation.

For many, gun ownership is a part of American life; guns are woven into our history, from the time matchlock muskets armed the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the ...

If applied to any semi-automatic firearm regardless of its cosmetic similarity to a true assault rifle, the term is incorrect.” The NRA defines an “assault weapon” simply as a weapon used ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A semi-automatic rifle license is now required in New York State to purchase and take possession of semiautomatic rifles. Any person that possessed a semi-automatic rifle prior ...