The Ohio Senate is turning down the volume on gun regulations, voting 31-1 on Thursday to advance a bill that would make ...

Firearm silencers could soon get deregulated if the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cleared the House earlier Thursday, prevails in the Senate. Buried deep in the megabill is a provision that would ...

New Jersey Democrats Sen. Bob Menendez and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman on Thursday introduced legislation to ban gun silencers. The 2021 Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act, which Menendez ...

In 2019, a gunman shot and killed 12 people in a Virginia Beach municipal building. His semiautomatic weapon was fitted with a silencer, making the gunshots sound, to one survivor, “like a nail gun.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a blurred cellphone video that would later go viral, federal officers knock on a Florida gun owner’s door, demanding he turn ...

Firearm silencers or suppressors have earned a somewhat nefarious reputation thanks in part to their frequent portrayal in pop culture as the accessories of hitmen and assassins like James Bond. For ...

Silencers are a greatly misunderstood component of firearms, due in large part to their portrayal in video games and actions movies. Although silencers can greatly reduce the noise of a firearms, they ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As shootings in Chicago increase, so does the debate about whether Illinois should legalize silencers. Silencers used by criminals on TV and in movies; this is how most people know of ...