Guns and Weapons

Marine Corps M16 rifles and M4 carbines are passing a new safety check designed to catch a potentially dangerous glitch.

U.S. Army weapons officials plan to purchase subcompact weapons from 10 different gun makers for testing.

Army units have reported about 3K M4s have failed a safety inspection because of a potential glitch in the selector switch.

A soldier at Fort Knox experienced an unexplained, unintended weapon discharge.

The Civilian Marksmanship Program has released the much anticipated instructions for purchasing U.S. Army surplus 1911 .45...

Two soldiers recently outshot their Marine classmates in one of the Marine Corps' most challenging schools.

The U.S. Air Force has conducted dozens of developmental flight tests of the B61-12 guided nuclear gravity bomb.

The contract was awarded to H&K in Ashburn, Virginia, to supply the service with as many as 15,000 M27 IARs and spare parts.

Pakistan's nuclear weapons program may prove to be just as destabilizing as those of North Korea and Iran.

The missile -- a 1,000-pound warhead, with pinpoint accuracy -- is capable of taking out moving land-based targets.