Of the three, the SKS is the oldest. Developed in the 1940s by Russian weapons designer Sergey Simonov, the Samozaryadny ...

The alleged gunman accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course had 11 rounds loaded in his ...

Authorities said they recovered the rifle that a gunman pointed through a fence around a Florida golf course where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was playing Sunday. Unlike in the ...

It was designed in the 1940s by another famous Russian weapons designer, Sergey Simonov. The SKS was a slightly older rifle than the AKs with replicas sold worldwide in the civilian market.

Often treated as a novel noisemaker, we forget that the 7.62x39 mm cartridge case shares many of the same properties as ...

Routh did not fire any rounds and did not have Trump in his line of sight, officials have said, but he left behind a digital ...

Ryan Wesley Routh, who allegedly sought to assassinate former President Trump over the weekend, was largely dismissed as a ...

Investigators found a loaded SKS-style rifle with a scope ... on Monday as the party faced the sobering realisation that it ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. A reference to one type of ammunition used in the AK-47 has been removed.) The suspect, Ryan Routh, 58, ran for it but he ...