MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A tiny device called a switch can turn a Glock handgun into a weapon of war, and law enforcement says they’re infiltrating the Mid-South. The official name is a machine gun conversion ...

When three teenagers opened fire at a SEPTA bus stop in Northeast Philly in March, injuring eight students on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, at least one of them was armed with a pistol that had been ...

Demand for illegal firearm "switches" — small devices attached to semiautomatic pistols to make them fire like machine guns — is exploding and so is their availability on the black market, federal ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A gun switch or Glock switch is an attachment to a gun that is gaining notoriety and popularity on social media. They’re easy to get and cheap to make, and the Jacksonville ...

570% increase in Glock switch seizures According to a 2023 report by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 5,454 guns with machine-gun conversion devices were taken into ATF ...

"These are weapons of war," said the dad of a teen killed in a hail of 89 shots. Just weeks before he was killed along with three others in a hail of gunfire at a Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, ...

I was not surprised that it was a Glock switch. Unfortunately, they're becoming all too common in our community," White said. White said eight guns were recovered at the crime scene, including an ...