The Supreme Court has begun hearing a case that could pave the way to overturning state gun-control laws. The case in question, McDonald v. Chicago, concerns the city of Chicago's longstanding ban on ...

Testing whether blocking the end of a gun could actually cause it to explode.

Despite dire predictions that the streets would be awash in military-style guns, the expiration of the decade-long assault weapons ban last September has not set off a sustained surge in the weapons' ...