Local governments have received hundreds of millions of dollars from the opioid settlements to support addiction treatment, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican efforts to loosen regulations on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns have been dealt a big setback with the Senate parliamentarian advising that the ...

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 ...

Efforts to weaken the federal law regarding firearm silencers put public safety at risk. For more than 80 years, silencers have been subject to robust regulatory oversight by the Bureau of Alcohol, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An NFL kicker just hit a 68-yard field goal. Yes, you read that right. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming' devices in tour of ...

A gruesome holiday season exercise: Think of some firearms and accessories that might have added to the body counts of Aurora and Newtown. More starkly, imagine the means by which coming Auroras and ...

The mysterious workings of a Pentagon office that oversees clandestine operations are unraveling in federal court, where a criminal investigation has exposed a secret weapons program entwined with ...

The Iowa House has voted to get rid of the state law that bans the sale and possession of gun silencers. Representative Matt Windschitl, a Republican from Missouri Valley who is a gun smith, calls ...

There's a wall-long mural in the manufacturing area of SilencerCo, in West Valley City, Utah, that shows a crowd of people with muzzled mouths. One's holding a sign that says, "Fight the Noise." ...