Columbus Police Sgt. Brett Slaughter holds a "switch" used to turn a handgun into a machine gun. He said the devices are not legal in the United States, but the Police have taken more than two dozen ...

Glock switches — tiny devices that turn pistols into machine guns — are on the rise in Ohio and across the country. Some are used by backyard gun enthusiasts. Others are used by criminals. A Glock ...

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 ...

A Pulaski County man pleaded guilty to possessing a machine gun in federal court Thursday in a multi-defendant case involving one other individual who was also charged with possession of a machine gun ...

A Glock pistol with an illegal conversion device, sometimes referred to as a Glock switch. The small piece, which is illegal and not manufactured by Glock, can convert a semi-automatic pistol into a ...

Attorneys general in Minnesota and New Jersey sued Glock on Thursday, accusing the company of making handguns that are easily modified to fire as illegal machine guns through a cheap add-on known as a ...