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.” ...

Silencers, also called suppressors, are tube-shaped devices that, when screwed into the muzzle of a gun, slow the decompression of gases that propel a bullet forward, thus reducing the “pop” sound of ...

There's a new firearm on the market with an attached silencer that is not covered by federal gun control laws because it's not considered a gun and it's not considered a silencer. The Maxim 50 from ...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” early Thursday morning, and when they did, they also passed a provision that eases Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, ...

Four years after the Texas Legislature passed a bill attempting to get around a federal registration requirement on gun silencers, Congress is weighing whether to do away with it altogether. House ...

(CNN) — The Justice Department is evaluating whether to defend the federal government’s restrictions on gun silencers that have been in place since the 1930s as part of President Donald Trump’s order ...