Law enforcement shares dangers of machine gun conversion devices

Law enforcement gathered Wednesday to demonstrate what machine gun conversion devices (MCD), otherwise known as "Glock ...
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Kentucky police battle surge in machine gun conversion devices

Kentucky is one of the top two states where police seized machine gun conversion devices last year, with nearly 600 ...
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3D-printed machine gun conversion devices, long a scourge in major cities, hit Evansville

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 ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

At least half of U.S. states now outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns

FILE - A semi-automatic pistol with a conversion device installed making it fully automatic is fired as four empty shell casings fly out of the weapon, at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and ...
KETV Omaha

OPD, ATF seeing surge in dangerous machine gun conversion kits that make handguns fully automatic

SEEING A RISE IN DANGEROUS GUN ALTERING EQUIPMENT COMMONLY KNOWN AS GLOCKS SWITCHES. THE PARTS CAN TURN A WEAPON FULLY AUTOMATIC. THEY’RE ILLEGAL, BUT CRIMINALS ARE STILL GETTING THEM. KETV NEWSWATCH ...
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Maplewood man admits to selling machine gun conversion devices

ST. LOUIS – A Maplewood man admitted to selling nine machine gun conversion devices to an undercover agent, arranging sales through an Instagram account. Tanario Darden, 23, pleaded guilty Wednesday ...
Chicago Tribune

Larry Snelling and Christopher Amon: Devices that turn firearms into machine guns are threatening Chicagoans and our police

Earlier this month, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced an initiative to help combat the alarming proliferation of machine gun conversion devices (MCDs), commonly referred to as ...