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A Richland County teenager is facing charges after a traffic stop early Tuesday. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department ...
In the complaint, Attorney General Ellison outlines that Glock has known since its creation in 1988 that its semi-automatic handguns can be easily converted into illegal machine guns.
Local and federal officials say the new law will will help make Birmingham safer, but advocates say it will take more than a state ban, policing and prosecution to solve Alabama’s homicide problem.
Attorneys general in Minnesota and New Jersey accused Glock of making handguns that are easily modified to fire as illegal machine guns through a cheap add-on.
Officers say they're seeing more switches that make guns fully automatic in Philadelphia, and they're cracking down on the devices.
Most of the Glock switch shipments had come from China, and were destined for various locations throughout the United States, CPB said.
An ATF agent shows a 3D-printed Glock switch in February 2022 in Houston. Many states are outlawing auto switches, which increase the ability of a handgun to fire rounds at a high rate. (Brett ...
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 thirty-plus rounds in seconds.
The shooting, which left four dead and 17 injured, is just the latest spurt of mass violence made possible by the small 3D-printed part known as a “conversion device,” “Glock switch” or ...
More: What are Glock switches? 5 things to know Among the 111 people charged last year with fastening a Glock switch to their firearm, more than a quarter were 18 years or younger.
The number of switch reports, however, pales in comparison to the number of 9mm handguns traced to Savannah crimes in 2022 that are not fitted with glock switches.