Submachine guns are small, portable machine guns intended for use at close range. The first submachine gun was made by Hugo Schmeisser, a German firearm designer, toward the end of World War I. He experimented with semiautomatic pistols, which fired...

A submachine gun (SMG) is a firearm that combines the automatic fire of a machine gun with the cartridge of a pistol, and is usually between the two in weight and size. They were first experimented with in the form of a stocked pistol being converted...

A psychology professor was charged with threatening people and hinting about bringing a submachine gun to campus.A psychologist was expected to evaluate Texas Christian University professor Charles Frederick Bond Jr., officials said. He was being held without bond.The 53-year-old professor was arrested at his home...

Authorities were on alert after suspected gang members torched three buses and shot at police, raising concerns the violence could mushroom into a repeat of last year's huge crime wave, officials said Wednesday.No one was hurt in Tuesday night's attacks but authorities were investigating whether...

President John F. Kennedy was the subject of three separate death threats during his visit to Ireland in 1963, according to newly declassified police documents released Friday.The documents released by the Irish Justice Department said police received two anonymous telephoned warnings in the weeks before...

A court Thursday ordered the arrest of two men allegedly involved in what security agents said was a thwarted terror plot planned for Victory Day involving an explosives-laden car, a spokeswoman said.The Lefortovo District Court sanctioned the arrest of Umar Batukayev and Ruslan Musaeva in...