Minutes into the earlier Senate debate, Democratic Sen. Pamela Lauria attempted to reinstate the language banning possession ...

Rhode Island’s Democratic-controlled state House has advanced legislation that would ban sales of certain semiautomatic ...

The legislation now goes to the House, which passed a different version of the bill that would also ban the possession of ...

The former DNC vice chair urged lawmakers to ban the sale, purchase, and possession of such weapons, while R.I. AFL-CIO ...

A potential compromise on the proposed 'assault weapons' ban could push the bill forward, but it's still very much uncertain.

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar is backing a bill to ban assault weapons, calling them “weapons of war” unfit for American ...

Rhode Island lawmakers approved a scaled-back assault weapons ban on Friday, with some supporters acknowledging the bill was ...

A Palm Coast man was arrested Sunday after deputies say he assaulted a woman during a domestic dispute and prevented her from ...

The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a revised "assault weapons" bill. The new bill bans only the sale of certain firearms, not possession or use, unlike the original House ...

I included an assault weapons ban in my budget for this very reason – and as a result, tonight we saw progress," the governor said after the bill cleared its final hurdle.