Maryland can ban assault-style weapons such as the AR-15, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, bolstering gun control efforts across the country under legal threat. The majority ruling from the ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to Maryland's ban on so-called assault weapons, leaving intact a lower court ruling that upheld the law. In declining to review ...

Rhode Island’s Democratic-controlled state House has advanced legislation that would ban sales of certain semiautomatic ...

The Supreme Court ruled Monday to let two state gun control laws remain in place, as the 6-3 conservative court declined to ...

Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004. Gun rights groups argue that banning the popular weapons violates people's Second Amendment rights. Attorneys for Maryland ...

A compromise version of the bill would ban only the sale of a more limited list of firearms, but key member of the Senate are ...

An 'assault weapons' ban for Rhode Island is getting its first vote this week, but some cities and towns are already fighting ...

Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004. Gun rights groups argue that banning the popular weapons violates people’s Second Amendment rights. Attorneys for Maryland ...

The Supreme Court is declining to hear a challenge to state bans on assault weapons, semi-automatic rifles that are popular ...

Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004. Attorneys for Maryland contend the guns aren’t protected by the Constitution because they’re similar to military-grade weapons.