President Donald Trump's administration agreed to permit the sale and possession of devices that let gun enthusiasts convert semiautomatic rifles into weapons that can shoot as fast as machine guns.

A Washington, D.C. man was sentenced to 7 years in prison after police spotted him in an Instagram livestream with a machine gun, the Justice Department announced. A U.S. District Court judge ...

Under federal law, possessing a machine gun conversion device is the same as possessing a machine gun — whether or not the device is attached to a gun. Violating the machine gun ban is ...

It comes after a multi-agency investigation uncovered illegal drug possession and the possession of an illegal tool that can turn a pistol into a machine gun, according to a press release from the ...

According to a 2023 report by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 5,454 guns with machine-gun conversion devices were taken into ATF custody at crime scenes between ...