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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In The Godfather, a Mafioso prepping young Michael Corleone to assassinate some rivals gives him a pistol for the job. After firing a bullet into the wall, Michael complains, "Ow! My ears!" His friend ...

Thousands of ads on Facebook and Instagram have promoted “fuel filters” using videos demonstrating how they can be easily modified into gun silencers—a process that, without federal approval, could ...