But the issue of gun control seems impossible to tackle due to the stark reality of partisanship in Washington. After the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004, the gun industry seized on ...

The name General George S. Patton Jr. echoes down the annals of military history, eliciting images of fierce determination ...

Historians have found themselves caught in the middle of America's debate over gun control ever since the Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that firearms laws must be consistent with American "tradition." ...

Cap gun, squirt gun, pop gun, dart gun, BB gun, 22rifle, M16 assault weapon, AK47 assault weapon. Growing up in the late 1940s and 50s, I was given “toy” guns for Christmas. In the U.S. we have a long ...

Two years after the deadliest mass shooting in Maine's history, voters are considering whether to make it easier for family ...

Tom Hanks famously depicted Captain John Miller in “Saving Private Ryan” toting his trusty Thompson submachine gun — “Tommy gun” — from the beaches of Normandy far into the interior of France in 1944.

In his fascinating biography of Jesse James, the author T. J. Stiles writes, "In Missouri, mandatory militia service, guerilla warfare, and aggressive marketing by firearms manufacturers had saturated ...

Law enforcement spent 14 years hunting for 36 historic guns stolen 50 years ago — they turned up in Newark, Delaware. Fifty artifacts stolen from museums and historical sites 50 years ago were ...