Over the past decade, Massachusetts streets have been marked by a rapid surge in homemade weapons with massive firepower. With the rise of illegal devices that can turn semiautomatic pistols into ...

The M240 has been a staple of U.S. firepower for nearly 50 years. Heavy, rugged, and combat-proven, the belt-fed 7.62x51mm machine gun has been carried by generations of American troops in conflicts ...

Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn’t a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...

The Browning M2 entered U.S. service in 1921 and remains operational today despite predating jets, radar, helicopters, and modern armored warfare. U.S. military attempts to replace the M2 repeatedly ...

Marines operating an M2 Browning machine gun mounted on a tripod at Khe Sanh Combat Base, Vietnam. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) For over a century the M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun, known ...

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 ...