In a highly anticipated move that will affect how prison violence is reported in the state, Tennessee's prison chief announced new definitions for assault on Thursday. After months of reports that the ...

The talk of a possible assault weapons ban has some gun buyers searching for certain guns.There's been a debate over what exactly is an assault rifle.At A&B Pawn in Van Buren, Ark., there isn't much ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NSF) — Exactly which guns would be outlawed under a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at stopping Floridians from possessing assault weapons is posing a puzzle for state ...

President Biden’s pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Steve Dettelbach, acknowledged Wednesday he does not have a definition for the term "assault weapon," even ...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Tuesday that he backs a ban on the ownership of "assault weapons" – but declined to provide a clear definition of the type of gun he would like ...

The insanely broad "assault weapons" definition used by the small town of Deerfield, Illinois, to prohibit common peashooters has now migrated to the entire state of Oregon. This week activists in ...

OTTAWA — The Liberal government prompted applause and anger on Tuesday by proposing an evergreen definition of a prohibited assault-style firearm for inclusion in gun-control legislation being studied ...

A new study shows that older people are more familiar with what constitutes sexual assault than younger people. Although a high percentage of all age groups correctly labelled many behaviors as sexual ...

For two months now, as accusations of sexual misconduct have piled up against Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced mogul has responded over and over again: “Any allegations of nonconsensual sex are ...

Exactly which guns would be outlawed under a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at stopping Floridians from possessing assault weapons is posing a puzzle for state economists. The economists' ...