We take to a controlled live-fire range to shoot the MG-34 and MG-42, two iconic German machine guns of World War II. The video demonstrates their mechanics and vastly different rates of fire, ...

The Imperial Japanese army learned important lessons during the fighting in Manchuria, and these contributed to the ...

Illinois law prohibits switches, automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, but their availability persists, in part ...

The federal government maintains the Second Amendment does not cover machine guns or the machine gun conversion device that ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the US military moved on from the M1 Garand, the goal was to create a unified platform that could serve both as a ...

Jennifer Mayerle happily returned to Minnesota and WCCO, where she began her career as a summer intern. The Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist returned to WCCO as a reporter in 2014 ...