On December 2, the Supreme Court will consider constitutional challenges to "assault weapon" bans in Connecticut and Cook ...

The federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to side with gun owners challenging state and local bans on AR-15-style rifles. In a brief filed on Sept. 4, Solicitor General D. John Sauer ...

Two cases to be heard in the fall challenge legality of state and local bans on the weapons, which are popular with gun owners and have been used in mass shootings. By Mattathias Schwartz and Ann E.

Attorney General William Tong earlier this week filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Grant v. Higgins, defending the constitutionality of Connecticut’s post-Sandy Hook AR-15 ban.

Police in Palos Verdes Estates recovered three firearms, including an unserialized AR-15-style rifle, and arrested two people in separate incidents on consecutive days this week, authorities said.