At least half of U.S. states now outlaw devices that can convert pistols into machine guns. Alabama and New Mexico are the ...

London Lamar (D-Memphis) is hoping to deliver this year with a state ban on “Glock switches” and machine gun conversion kits. These devices allow semi-automatic firearms to function as an illegal, ...

Three years after it was first introduced in the legislature by Rep. Philip Ensler the bill to ban ‘Glock switches’ in ...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill making the possession of a “Glock switch” illegal in the state of Alabama.

The Birmingham Police Department says Special Enforcement Team (SET) officers arrested a 15-year-old boy who was in ...

A teenage boy is the first person in Birmingham to be arrested under Alabama’s new state ban on Glock switches. The Birmingham Police Department’s Special Enforcement Team arrested a 15-year-old ...

Around 4:45, officers were investigating a suspicious vehicle on 9th Terrace North when they took the boy into custody.

Anyone caught in possession of a Glock switch will now face up to 10 years ... have been linked to mass shootings in Alabama. Rep. Phillip Ensler (D-Montgomery) has championed the ban for three ...

(AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle, File) MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns ...