Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ALBANY — The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s new definition of assault in prison unusual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge has ruled that California’s 32-year-old assault weapons ban is unconstitutional – and that the state cannot limit civilian access to weapons he considered to be “fairly ordinary, ...

What is an "assault weapon"? That was the question I addressed in a short article for the The Regulatory Review, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The Regulatory Review publishes short ...