In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act, which barred the private sale and ownership of machine guns. The act grandfathered in machine guns that were registered with ...

The machine-pistol was hardly a new concept when, in the 1970s, Italian gun-maker Beretta began developing the 93R, a sleek little weapon that practically spews bullets. Machine-pistols first appeared ...

A man pleaded guilty Monday in Las Vegas to possessing a pistol that was illegally converted into a machine gun. Saying he wanted to put the case behind him, Alfonzo Lee Womack, 29, appeared before ...

MTA police officers shot and killed a parolee armed with a loaded machine pistol during a wild scene on a crowded Queens street as they tried to arrest him for groping a 19-year-old woman, authorities ...