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HOUSTON – Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are on a mission to train law enforcement agencies nationwide on how to spot illegally manufactured machine guns ...
Rochester, N.Y.— An Irondequoit man is facing federal charges for allegedly having more than a dozen 3D-printed Glock switches, which can turn a firearm into a fully automatic weapon and qualify as a ...
EVANSVILLE — A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Marquel Payne of Evansville with one count of possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and one count of possession of a machine ...
"Glock switches," small devices capable of turning almost any handgun into a machine gun, are increasingly being found among seized firearms in the Phoenix area, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, ...
When federal agents searched a home in Northern Kentucky, they found nearly a dozen devices meant to turn a semi-automatic firearm into a fully automatic one, prosecutors said. Not only did ...
The use of 3D-printed guns in criminal and violent activities is likely to continue to increase. And governments and police ...
In 1987, a 22-year-old Venezuelan named Jorge Leon invented a small metal insert that could turn the Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol into a fully automatic machine gun with the flick of a switch. Leon ...