Automatic gunfire is making up a larger share of total gunshots than in previous years in Milwaukee, according to newly released data. Police and experts say the increase, while still only a small ...

"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, ...

SAN ANTONIO — Federal authorities plan to crack down on machine gun conversion devices – also known as "auto sears" or "switches" – as part of a new initiative announced Monday in San Antonio.

A 22-year-old Milwaukee man was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for importing and selling devices that convert semi-automatic guns into the equivalent of automatic weapons.

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 ...

CONVERTED. JAMES AND DERRICK, YOU SAID IT. THE DEVICE IS CALLED A SWITCH CAPABLE OF SWITCHING A SEMI-AUTO HANDGUN TO A FULLY AUTOMATIC. THEY’RE CHEAP TO BUY, CAN BE MADE WITH A 3D PRINTER OR EVEN ...

Two Boston men accused of selling a dozen machine gun conversion devices, also known as “switches,” were indicted by a federal grand jury Monday. Elijah Navarro, 24, and Michael Wilkerson, 22, are ...

A 35-year-old Erie resident has been indicted on a federal machine gun charge that he possessed two "Glock switches" — small, chip-like devices that allow an semiautomatic Glock handgun to fire as a ...