Federal law prohibits conversion devices that allow guns to be fired more rapidly, but local police chiefs say a sate ban is also necessary.

Local and regional law enforcement officials are supporting a bill that would create a state criminal penalty for possessing devices that convert handguns into automatic weapons. “Glock switches” are ...

FAYETTEVILLE --Fully automatic weapons are showing up with increasing frequency during traffic stops, at domestic disturbances and at crime scenes in Northwest Arkansas, including at a recent case ...

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Back in October, we talked about Glock switches, a small device that turns a semi-automatic handgun into a machine gun: one pull of the trigger, and it sprays bullets until the magazine is empty. Even ...

Leon said that when Gaston Glock, an Austrian engineer, got word of his full-automatic conversion device, he asked to meet him while on a visit to Venezuela in the late 1980s.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - There has been lots of conversation throughout Alabama about machine gun conversion devices dubbed Glock switches. Several bills addressing them passed Wednesday through the ...

Glock switches — tiny devices that turn pistols into machine guns — are on the rise in Ohio and across the country. Some are used by backyard gun enthusiasts. Others are used by criminals. A Glock ...

A Charlotte man was sentenced to 138 months in prison for selling a machine gun conversion device and possessing more than ...

EDWARDSVILLE — The July 26 killing of a 16-year-old Madison youth by a man armed with a handgun converted to fire as a fully-automatic weapon underscores the increasing frequency of those weapons ...

A Glock switch is a small, often covertly marketed accessory designed to convert a standard semiautomatic Glock pistol into a fully automatic weapon. The modification alters the gun's firing mechanism ...