Gardaí seized a semi-automatic M1911 pistol, an automatic Koch G3 Rifle, and ammunition after a car in which Mr Fitzgerald was travelling was stopped at Ponsonby Bridge near Straffan, Co Kildare.

While later rifles with free floating barrels like the G3 are a snap to accurize ... and overall operation of the M14 but without the fully automatic capability. There are more civilian models ...

The man who opened fire in a Carlow shopping centre before taking his own life has been identified as 22-year-old Evan Fitzgerald, who was on bail and facing 13 serious firearms and explosives charges ...

An Garda Síochána as defended the use of ‘controlled deliveries’ of items such as drugs or decommissioned firearms as a ...

The man who shot himself in front of shoppers in Carlow was facing serious criminal charges – and was terrified of going to jail, it has emerged.

Mr Fitzgerald, of Portrushen Upper, Kiltegan, Rathvilly, Co Carlow, was due at Naas District Court in Co Kildare this week. He was due to stand trial in front of a judge and jury later this year, ...

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected two Second Amendment cases Monday, one challenging Maryland’s ban on semi-automatic rifles and the other challenging Rhode Island’s ban ...

One of the appeals dealt with Maryland’s ban on certain semi-automatic weapons such as AR- and AK-style rifles. The law, enacted after the deadly 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in ...

a device converts some semiautomatic handguns into fully-automatic weapons. "I talked to my SWAT team. We’re pretty confident, but we don’t have the weapon in hand, that a switch was involved ...