Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A "switch," also known as a conversion device, or sear, or "giggle switch," as displayed by ATF, with an imprint falsely ...

EVANSVILLE –– Just months after Vanderburgh County set up what it called a Crime Gun Intelligence Center, officials claim the agency helped seize more than 60 “machine gun conversion devices” and an ...

In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed an effort to outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns. In Alabama, the governor made it a priority. Lawmakers in both states — one led by ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A small plastic part that can be made at home in an hour and installed in 60 seconds can "switch" a semi-automatic handgun into an illegal machine gun and the DOJ is working to get ...

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SLIDELL, La. — They are illegal, deadly, and federal agents are finding them on the streets of New Orleans and Jefferson Parish. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, criminals are ...

A Peoria, Illinois, man, Anthony Q. Johnson, 19, of the 1100 block of North Flora Avenue, was sentenced on August 2 to 50 months in federal prison for possessing a handgun equipped with a “Glock ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A D.C. man has been charged with a felony act of possessing a machine gun -- becoming the first person convicted at trial under the Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2024 law.

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FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Kentucky state lawmakers are preparing to consider legislation that would create state-level penalties for possessing machine gun conversion switches, devices that are ...

The earsplitting, heart-stopping roar of fully automatic weapons hasn't been often heard on America's streets since Congress largely outlawed them in 1934. But now it's back, owing to a small device ...