Andy Lopez was walking to his friend’s house in Santa Rosa, Calif. on Oct. 22 when two Sonoma County deputies spotted the 13-year-old boy in a blue hoodie carrying what they thought was an AK-47 ...

WINTHROP – A Winthrop man was arraigned Tuesday on charges that he menaced people with a "realistic-looking" replica assault rifle during preparations for the town's 4th of July parade. Gregory Gill, ...

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A teenager carrying a replica AK-47 was shot and killed by police officers near Santa Rosa, California on Tuesday afternoon. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, police rolled up behind Andy Cruz ...

To call an AK-47 assault rifle an alluring object feels strange. Yet, at South African-born artist Ralph Ziman’s exhibition, “Ghosts,” running Sept. 8 through Nov. 4 at the Joseph Gross Gallery, that ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man whose alias is “AK Guru” has been charged with making and selling hundreds of machine guns built from existing and deconstructed weapons, federal authorities ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - A Trenton man is in jail after police say he had a loaded AK-47-style pistol at ECU Health Medical Center last night. The hospital says around 8:00 p.m., a man with a gun was ...

Russia's newly announced AK-12 assault rifle will be "much more versatile" than the famed AK-47, one expert has said, as Russia prepares to roll out the upgraded model to its armed forces in Ukraine.