May 18 (UPI) --The federal government will allow the sale of devices that enable standard rifles to operate like machine guns, a move that angered gun control groups. The Justice Department said ...

Sixteen states, including Oregon, have sued the Trump administration over its plan to allow the sale of forced-reset triggers that make semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly and return devices ...

The agreement announced Friday by the Justice Department resolves a series of cases over the aftermarket trigger that the government had previously argued qualify as machine guns under federal law.

The device, called a forced-reset trigger, allows semiautomatic weapons to fire hundreds of rounds. The Biden administration had sought to block them from being sold. By Tim Balk The Trump ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado and 15 other states have sued the Trump administration over its plan to allow the sale of forced-reset triggers that make semiautomatic rifles fire ...