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Few military weapons have stayed relevant across six decades of changing warfare, doctrine, and technology, but one machine ...

FILE - A semi-automatic pistol with a conversion device installed making it fully automatic is fired as four empty shell casings fly out of the weapon, at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and ...

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Jul. 30—As a young boy, Keith Takacs knew he wanted a Gatling gun. The rapid-fire weapon, a precursor to modern machine guns patented in 1862, looked cool in old cowboy movies. Fast-forward a few ...

The jungles of Vietnam served as proving grounds for guns like the M16 and variations of the minigun American arms used throughout the conflict gained iconic status among soldiers and the general ...

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 ...

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