As Baton Rouge grapples with a third-straight year of staggering gun violence, officials fear a new trend could make the carnage worse: Small, illegal devices that turn pistols into machine guns are ...

Federal authorities in Louisiana are warning the public of a new firearm attachment that enables a pistol to fire like a machine gun. Commonly known as a Glock switch, the quarter-size attachment is ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - A device that transforms a regular handgun into a machine gun will soon be officially illegal in Virginia. It was one of two gun safety bills Governor Glenn Youngkin recently ...

ST. LUCIE COUNTY − A 22-year-old man accused of having devices to convert a semi-automatic pistol to fire fully automatically was arrested after law enforcement officials investigated a homicide in ...

A Glock pistol with an illegal conversion device, sometimes referred to as a Glock switch. The small piece, which is illegal and not manufactured by Glock, can convert a semi-automatic pistol into a ...

Last year, U.S. officials seized 1,500 guns with auto sears — and experts suggest they account for a small fraction of the total that exist. A shooting that killed six people in Sacramento in April ...

Alabama and Illinois share little in common politically — especially when it comes to guns. But both are among the growing number of states bridging the partisan divide to ban “Glock switches,” a ...

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A tiny, inexpensive device is all it takes to modify some semi-automatic handguns into illegal automatic weapons capable of firing multiple rounds with one pull of the trigger. These auto sear ...