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"Glock switches," small devices capable of turning almost any handgun into a machine gun, are increasingly being found among seized firearms in the Phoenix area, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, ...
HOUSTON – Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are on a mission to train law enforcement agencies nationwide on how to spot illegally manufactured machine guns ...
A Northern Kentucky man has admitted to manufacturing devices that transform a semi-automatic firearm into a fully automatic one and disposing of the 3D printers used to make them. Armando Ismael Soto ...
COVINGTON, Ky. (WKRC) - A local man admitted to using a 3D printer to manufacture firearms and selling them, along with illegal drugs, through Facebook. Christopher Brautigan pleaded guilty in federal ...
A tiny, cheap device known as a "Glock switch" or a "machine gun conversion device" allows criminals to convert a handgun into a machine gun and unleash 30-plus rounds in seconds, federal authorities ...
Glock switches were involved in 58 incidents in Seattle over two years, with shell casings at crime scenes more than doubling.
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) -Rejecting a recommendation of leniency negotiated by an Evergreen man’s attorney and prosecutors, a federal judge on Wednesday opted for harsher punishment in a case involving a ...
A Baton Rouge man and woman were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly printing, constructing and selling Glock switches after authorities searched their apartments, according to police. The pair also ...
In 1987, a 22-year-old Venezuelan named Jorge Leon invented a small metal insert that could turn the Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol into a fully automatic machine gun with the flick of a switch. Leon ...