BBC Trending has investigated the global spread of 3D-printed guns across social media platforms including Telegram, Facebook and Instagram, as well as websites offering how-to guides.

Within an hour, Jessy offered us a Liberator or a Glock switch. A glock switch (also known as an auto sear) is a small, sometimes 3D-printed part that converts a pistol into an automatic weapon.

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.

States attorneys general have filed lawsuits against Glock for not preventing their firearms being easily converted to machine guns.

They also found a 3D printer in the living room and a casting mold and forging equipment in the carport next to the bedroom. It is the first federal Glock switch prosecution in Mobile’s federal ...

Soto Melendez used a 3D printer to make Glock switches at his Park Hills home and another man sold the devices, prosecutors said.

Soto Melendez used a 3D printer to make Glock switches at his Park Hills home and another man sold the devices, prosecutors said.

Where do they come from? Officials said switches are illegally imported from overseas or 3D-printed locally. Because the devices can be made from plastic on a 3D printer, it means the files to ...

Local Crime & Public Safety Md., Baltimore sue Glock over device enabling machine-gun fire Glock doesn’t make the small switch, but the lawsuit says the gunmaker has taken no steps to prevent ...

The auto sear, or “Glock switch,” converts a handgun into a weapon that fires 120 rounds a minute. The lawsuit wants Glock to reject such a capabiliity.

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 ...