Government agencies across the United States periodically auction firearms, offering licensed gun dealers an opportunity to purchase surplus and seized weapons. GovDeals, a government surplus auction ...

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 ...

Sara Abel, the public information officer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Dallas Field Division, points out a machine gun conversion device on a pistol during a press ...

A newly passed law in California restricts sales of a popular type of handgun that critics have long said is too easy to convert into a machine gun. The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 10, ...